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.
Lucky Girl
Drama
6.1
The Day Naruto Became Hokage
Animation, Drama, Fantasy
7.5
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Science Fiction, Adventure
8.0
Gasping for Air
Drama
6.7
Nullification: The Rightful Remedy
6.0
De Club van Sinterklaas film: Het Grote Sneeuwavontuur
Family
8.0
Christmas with a View
Romance, Family, TV Movie
5.8
All
6.8
Pirates Down the Street II: The Ninjas from Across
Family, Action, Adventure
6.5
Justice League vs. Teen Titans
Science Fiction, Action, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
7.3
A Wish for Christmas
TV Movie, Romance, Drama, Fantasy
6.0
Boys Will Be Boys
Comedy
6.8
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
War, Drama, History
5.5
Yardie
Crime
5.9
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II
Animation, Comedy
5.8
Descendants 3
Family, TV Movie, Adventure, Fantasy
7.7
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Animation, Family, Fantasy
6.8
Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
Adventure, Family, Comedy
4.4
Unhappily Ever After
Comedy, Romance
7.1
Bruno & Boots: The Wizzle War
Comedy, Family
6.0
The Hannas
Drama, Comedy
3.8
Jailbirds
Drama
5.7
Angélica
Drama
4.7
That Trip We Took with Dad
Drama, Comedy
6.4
Dandelion
Drama
0.0
Armenia, My Love...
Drama, History
0.0
I Miss You, Alexandra!
Drama, Thriller
0.0
Mama Anna
Drama
0.0
Prescott Place
Drama, Thriller
0.0
My Daughter's Disgrace
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
5.2
She Would Move the Tree Rather More to the Middle
Drama
0.0
White Tape
Animation, Drama
2.0
My Childhood Mystery Tree
Animation, Drama
7.3
Anishoara
Drama
6.3
Beat Beat Heart
Drama, Comedy, Romance
4.0
The Comforting Hand
Drama
6.0
The Beilis Case
Drama, Crime
5.5
Uvanga
Drama
10.0
Pepperminta
Drama
6.3
My Life Without Me
Drama, Romance
6.0