The Risky Road

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Released April 8th, 1918, 'The Risky Road' stars Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Juanita Hansen, Claire Du Brey The NR movie has a runtime of about 50 min, and received a user score of 42 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 2 knowledgeable users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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 companys Bluebird brand Parks 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 Phillipss 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 BW duplicate negative was made from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference" .

'The Risky Road' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on April 8th, 1918