Movie: The Risky Road

Top 8 Billed Cast

Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Phillips

Marjorie Helmer

William Stowell
William Stowell

Melville Kingston

Juanita Hansen
Juanita Hansen

Lottie Bangor

Claire Du Brey
Claire Du Brey

Mrs. Miles Kingston

George Chesebro
George Chesebro

Robert Grant (as George Cheseboro)

Edward Cecil
Edward Cecil

Miles Kingston

Joseph W. Girard
Joseph W. Girard

Van Belt (as Joseph Girard)

Sally Starr
Sally Starr

Myrtle

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    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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    1918-04-08

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    4.2

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