The Road to Ruin

The Road to Ruin – 1934 – United States

The Road to Ruin is a remake of a 1928 silent film of the same name, both of which star doe-eyed Helen Foster. While I’ve yet to see it, apparently the 1928 version is hotter. Good. The 1934 version is so restrained it’s an indecipherable code of vague allusions within which the plot’s promise of sordid sexiness is all but lost.

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