Sex delinquent!?!? - Is that what they actually called loose women back in the day? "The Road To Ruin" is the sexploitation equivalent of those better known drug cult flicks from the 1930's like "Reefer Madness" and "Cocaine Fiends". It purports to portray what can happen to an average teenage girl who gets caught up with the wrong crowd, resulting in a spiraling descent through the use of alcohol, drugs, and gasp!... pre-marital sex! The finale would be virtually unthinkable today, but seventy years ago, who knows? I wouldn't doubt it if leery old abortion docs like the one in the picture had anything to do with it.
This may not have some of the more over the top, goofy and contrived circumstances that the anti-drug flicks of the era might have come up with, but it plays out pretty much the same. Something unique to this one was that rather racy dice game played in the tradition of your best strip poker, followed by a steamy midnight swim. The picture offers a lot more in the way of suggestion and titillation than anything else, but it sure does get it's message across. By the time it's all over, you genuinely feel sorry for the film's main character Ann Dixon (Helen Foster), but it's tempered by the totally unrealistic way the whole story ends. To catch it for yourself, look for the four disc/twenty movie DVD package titled 'Cult Classics' from Mill Creek Entertainment at a bargain price. Fans of the genre will make a substantial addition to their film library with little known gems like this along with the titles mentioned earlier, all in one convenient place for the discriminating viewer.
This may not have some of the more over the top, goofy and contrived circumstances that the anti-drug flicks of the era might have come up with, but it plays out pretty much the same. Something unique to this one was that rather racy dice game played in the tradition of your best strip poker, followed by a steamy midnight swim. The picture offers a lot more in the way of suggestion and titillation than anything else, but it sure does get it's message across. By the time it's all over, you genuinely feel sorry for the film's main character Ann Dixon (Helen Foster), but it's tempered by the totally unrealistic way the whole story ends. To catch it for yourself, look for the four disc/twenty movie DVD package titled 'Cult Classics' from Mill Creek Entertainment at a bargain price. Fans of the genre will make a substantial addition to their film library with little known gems like this along with the titles mentioned earlier, all in one convenient place for the discriminating viewer.