The Road to Ruin
An innocent girl! A life destroyed!
1934 | 62m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer |
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| Writer: | Dorothy Davenport, Willis Kent |
| Staring: |
| A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion. | |
| Release Date: | May 14, 1934 |
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| Director: | Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer |
| Writer: | Dorothy Davenport, Willis Kent |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | remake, underage drinking, pre-code, underage sex, wild party, unplanned pregnancy, strip poker, illegal abortion, defloration, moral corruption, exploitation film, unknowingly dating married man, marijuana use |
| Production Companies | Willis Kent Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 04, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Helen Foster | Ann Dixon |
| Nell O'Day | Eve Monroe |
| Glen Boles | Tommy |
| Robert Quirk | Ed |
| Paul Page | Ralph Bennett |
| Richard Hemingway | Brad |
| Virginia True Boardman | Martha Dixon |
| Richard Tucker | Mr. Dixon |
| Donald Kerr | Drunk shooting dice |
| Eleanor Thatcher | Dancer |
| Neal Pratt | Evans |
| Jimmy Tolson | Club Singer Jimmy |
| Mae Busch | Mrs. Monroe (uncredited) |
| Dorothy Davenport | Mrs. Merrill (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Davenport | Director, Writer |
| Melville Shyer | Director |
| Willis Kent | Writer |
| S. Roy Luby | Editor |
| James Diamond | Director of Photography |
| George Curtner | Assistant Director |
| Name | Title |
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| Willis Kent | Producer |
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