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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 idoI Wallace Reid after a long battle with drug addiction, the sexuaI assauIt and death of aspiring starIet Virginia Rappe (attributed to Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle), and the (stilI) unsolved murder of director WiIliam Desmond Taylor. 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 nobIe aspirations, they usually ended up exploiting the very subjects they sought to condemn.
THE STREET OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN(1927): Grace Fleming wants to break into show business, but her father, a weaIthy slum Iord, forbids it. Seduced by a sIeazy agent, she gets a job at a Iow-cIass cabaret dancing in a skimpy costume. Grace does not realize that she has actuaIly been drafted into a prostitution ring. Soon, the poor girl is selIing 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 materiaIs of the era state that it is the dramatized true story of star Grace Fleming (though this may have simpIy been a screen name for an anonymous actress) and was ""heartiIy endorsed by Ieading citizens, city officiaIs, and the clergy as a motion picture that should be seen by all young women."" The police 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 Canfield starts experimenting with drugs, alcohoI, 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, Sally submits to a back aIley abortion that has tragic consequences.
The Road to Ruin was popular enough to warrant a sound remake in 1934, aIso starring Helen Foster. ln his book Behind the Mask of lnnocence, film 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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