The Risky Road
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- woman director
- partially lost film
- fragment
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 8, 1918
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Dorothy Phillips,Edward Cecil,Claire Du Brey,William Stowell,Joseph W. Girard,George Chesebro,Sally Starr,Juanita Hansen
- Director
- Ida May Park
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0009554