Saturday nights are perfect for watching cinematic garbage. Old cinematic garbage, in particular. And while directors Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer’s 1934 educational opus “The Road to Ruin” isn’t the worst “scare flick” to come out of the early exploitation scene, it’s definitely a little rough around the edges. However, this morally-minded motion picture does come with a well-polished lesson: If you drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, and engage in premarital sex, you will have an abortion and die. That’s just the way it is. Here’s a synopsis, though it won’t tell you anything you don’t already know: 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. I told you so. Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer’s “The Road to Ruin” in all its glory has been embedded below.
- 7/29/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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