Free Watch The Risky Road (1918) : Movie Trailer 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Apr 08, 1918 |
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| Genres | : | Drama |
| Production Company | : | Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays |
| Production Countries | : | United States of America |
| Casts | : | Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Juanita Hansen, Claire Du Brey, George Chesebro, Edward Cecil, Joseph W. Girard, Sally Starr |
| Plot Keywords | : | woman director, partially lost film, fragment |
