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The Risky Road (1918)

Name: The Risky Road
Director: Ida May Park
Genre: Drama
Released: 1918-04-08
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Juanita Hansen, Sally Starr, Claire Du Brey

IMDb 3.50h 50mDrama

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Plot Summary

Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.