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The Risky Road (1918)

The Risky Road (1918)

Drama
Release Date: 1918, April 8
Directors: Ida May Park
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays, Bluebird Photoplays
Cast: Claire Du Brey, Dorothy Phillips, Juanita Hansen, Sally Starr, George Chesebro, Joseph W. Girard, Edward Cecil, William Stowell

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

woman director partially lost film fragment