The Road to Ruin (1928)
Overview
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
Cast
Helen Foster
Sally Canfield
Grant Withers
Don Hughes
Florence Turner
Mrs. Canfield
Thomas Carr
Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
Eddie Dunn
Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)Recommendations
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