The Risky Road
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.
Year: 1918
Genre: Drama
Studio: Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays
Director: Ida May Park
Cast: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Juanita Hansen, Claire Du Brey, George Chesebro, Edward Cecil
Crew: Ida May Park (Director), Katherine Leiser Robbins (Story), Ida May Park (Writer)
Runtime: 50 minutes
Release: Apr 08, 1918
IMDb: 4.20/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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