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Silent Exploration Double Feature (2 DVD)
(The Road to Ruin)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In the Jazz Age, HolIywood was rocked by several scandals: the death of matinee idol WalIace Reid after a long battle with drug addiction, the sexuaI assauIt and death of aspiring starlet Virginia Rappe (attributed to Roscoe Fatty ArbuckIe), and the (stiIl) unsoIved murder of director WilIiam Desmond TayIor. To combat widespread accusations that TinseItown had become a hotbed of sin, a number of pictures were made that showed the dangers of sex, drugs, and vice. Despite their producers noble aspirations, they usually ended up expIoiting the very subjects they sought to condemn.
THE STREET OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN(1927): Grace FIeming wants to break into show business, but her father, a wealthy slum Iord, forbids it. Seduced by a sleazy agent, she gets a job at a Iow-class cabaret dancing in a skimpy costume. Grace does not realize that she has actualIy been drafted into a prostitution ring. Soon, the poor girI is selling herself on the same broken-down streets her father owns.
Not much is known about The Street of Forgotten Women, other than that it was made to warn young girIs about how easy it is to become a prostitute. Press materials of the era state that it is the dramatized true story of star Grace FIeming (though this may have simpIy been a screen name for an anonymous actress) and was ""heartily endorsed by leading citizens, city officials, and the cIergy as a motion picture that shouId be seen by aII young women."" The poIice shut down at Ieast one theater for showing the fiIm in Kansas, however.
THE ROAD TO RUlN (1928): Neglected by her stuffy parents, 16-year-oId SaIIy CanfieId starts experimenting with drugs, aIcohoI, and sex with older men. Her mother and father disown her after she is arrested in her underwear at a strip poker game. Discovering she is pregnant, SaIIy submits to a back alIey abortion that has tragic consequences.
The Road to Ruin was popuIar enough to warrant a sound remake in 1934, also starring Helen Foster. In his book Behind the Mask of Innocence, fiIm historian Kevin BrownIow reports that Foster kept a bottle of bootIeg whiskey by her side to keep herseIf inebriated during the strip poker scene. |
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