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.
ABCD 2
Drama
5.7
Brent Weinbach: Appealing to the Mainstream
Comedy
5.9
Main Sunder Hoon
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.8
The Evil Marriage
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Animation
10.0
Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again
Comedy
7.7
Staircase C
Comedy, Drama
6.1
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
War, Drama
6.0
The Mummy's Tomb
Horror, Fantasy
5.6
Main Aurr Mrs Khanna
Drama
5.0
FILM
7.2
Gothalo
Drama, Romance
9.5
Lady Terminator
Action, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction
5.3
ŽŽŽ: Journal About Želimir Žilnik
Documentary
8.5
Object: Alimony
Drama
6.0
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Documentary
7.2
The Crocodiles Strike Back
Family, Adventure
6.9
Newton
Comedy, Drama
7.1
Fast and Furious, la saga no limit
Documentary, TV Movie
8.1
Ellis
Drama
6.6
Painting for the main bedroom
6.2
My Life Without Me
Drama, Romance
6.1
Open Hearts
Drama, Romance
7.1
Italian for Beginners
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.4
The Strange Portrait of the Lady in Yellow
Horror, Crime, Mystery, Drama
5.1
The Secret Life of Words
Romance, Drama
7.0
The Last Resort
Drama
0.0
Lost in Translation
Drama, Romance, Comedy
7.4
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.6
Boys Don't Cry
Crime, Drama
7.4
Of the Unknown
Documentary, Drama
0.0
Boys
Drama
0.0
The Sisterhood of Night
Mystery, Drama, Thriller
6.2
Riddles of the Sphinx
Drama
4.7
Polly of the Circus
Drama
6.0
Enough Said
Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.7
Exit Marrakech
Drama
6.0
The Piano
Drama, Romance
7.4
Little Miss Sunshine
Comedy, Drama
7.7
Marine Life
Comedy, Drama
3.8
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Drama, History
0.0