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Title: The Road To Ruin


Date: 1934
Type: Drama
Rating: 2 Stars 2/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Wallace Reid and Melville Shyer
Producer:

Comment
A naive young woman falls in with the wrong crowd and gets involved in alcohol, drugs, men and sex leading to her downfall.This is definately a pre-code film with semi naked girls, premarital sex, under age sex, abortions and striptease dice games. Today this is more interesting as a view into attitudes of the time than for the plot. Helen Foster is good as the innocent young woman being gradually led astray.

Actors

Helen Foster
Nell O'DayNell O'Day
Glen Boles
Robert Quirk
Paul Page
Richard Hemingway
Virginia True Boardman
Eleanor Thatcher

Oscars

None