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The Risky Road

3.5(3)191850m1

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.

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    3.5/10

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Status
Released
Budget
Box office
Language
No Language
  • woman director
  • partially lost film
  • fragment

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR8 Apr 1918

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When was The Risky Road released?
The Risky Road was released on 8 April 1918.
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What is the rating of The Risky Road?
The Risky Road holds a 3.5/10 audience score from 3 votes.
Who directed The Risky Road?
The Risky Road (1918) was directed by Ida May Park.
How long is The Risky Road?
The Risky Road runs for 50m.

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