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.
Cocoon: The Return
Comedy, Science Fiction
6.5
Bonanza: The Return
Western, TV Movie
6.4
Transformers: Titans Return
Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy
6.9
Return to Horror Hotel
Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy
6.7
The Return
Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction
6.0
John
Documentary
7.3
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach
Action, Thriller
6.1
Return to Rajapur
Drama, Romance
6.8
Slayers Return
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
6.5
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
Animation, Action, Adventure
7.5
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Horror, Comedy
6.3
Return of the Fly
Horror, Science Fiction
6.1
Return to House on Haunted Hill
Horror, Thriller
5.4
Road of No Return
Action, Drama, Thriller
5.9
The Return
Documentary, Action
6.6
Dorchester's Revenge: The Return of Crinoline Head
Horror
5.6
Return to the 36th Chamber
Action, Comedy
6.9
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Comedy, Adventure, War
7.7
Return to Innocence
Drama
6.8
Urotsukidōji III: Return of the Overfiend
Animation, Horror
6.6
In Between
Drama
7.1
Mansfield Park
Romance, Drama
6.7
Daddy's Girl
Comedy, Drama
4.0
American Joyride
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
1.0
40 Days of Silence
Drama
8.0
Under the Moonlight
Fantasy, Drama
0.0
Welcome Back
Drama
0.0
Moral
Drama
6.7
Novitiate
Drama
6.4
The Girls' Grave
Drama
5.0
Opportunus
Drama
4.5
Pussy Have the Power
Drama
5.2
Blondie
Drama
6.0
4242
Drama
0.0
The Pinkie
Action, Comedy, Drama, Crime, Science Fiction
5.8
Mirror
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
0.0
Traction
Comedy, Drama
5.4
Lies
Drama
10.0
In House
Drama
5.0
Kelly & Cal
Drama, Comedy
6.3