THE ROAD TO RUIN is about another group of typical, 35 year old high school students, in a typical neighborhood, on a typical planet.
Poor Anne Dixon (Helen Foster) doesn't know the sort of kids with whom she's mingling! After school, instead of studying studiously, these hepcats are busy dancing to the latest devil jazz, whooping it up like the hellbound heathens they are!
When Anne spends the night at Eve Monroe's (Nell O'Day) house, all hades breaks loose! While her mother drinks good, nourishing alcohol, Eve introduces Anne to untoward romance stories! When mom and company depart for the evening, Eve pours Anne a Martini and lights up a tobacco cigarette! Within seconds, Anne is on cloud nine! Perhaps, ten!
The next day, Anne accepts a ride home from school. From a BOY! In a CAR! His name is Tommy.
We can almost hear Jeezuz cry!
Soon, Anne is smoking and drinking semi-regularly, "hanging out" by the lake with those up-to-no-good "friends" of hers! They even go canoeing! In no time, the lust demon flaps his wings over them, leading to unabashed, reprobate behavior! Anne ends up crying like the guilty sinner she's become.
Before long, Anne's out at rustic "lodges" with "the gang", dancing far too close while crooners croon their lilting songs of Satan! Oh, but it's the devil jazz that sets fire to their h-o-r-m-o-n-e-s, sending them into fits of dancing that only savages could enjoy! That's when the men in tuxedos -we know how they are!- move in, introducing Anne to their dim world of darkness.
Tommy's been replaced by Ralph, and Anne's running with a "fast crowd" now! Ralph gives Anne narcotic drinks, sending her into a state of wanton abandon!
The next night, Anne's old friends are dancing the Hully Gully at Brad's big bash. Eve shows her knees! Dice playing breaks out. For money! And clothing! Could these people possibly sink any lower? Yes! They can! Stripping down to their "birthday suits", they go cavorting in the pool! Unclothed "skinny dipping" has erupted! Topless, young men and women! Together! Without shame!
Thank God, a police raid takes place and everyone is taken to the pokey.
Later, Anne and Eve are examined by a doctor, and both are determined to be "sex delinquents"! The shame arrives at last! The tragedy is compounded when Anne discovers that she's "in the family way"! Ralph convinces her to go to a certain physician he knows for a "procedure". The last state of this unfortunate girl is worse than the first!
Anne is doomed. Her life is over. Let us not do as she has done. Let us live clean, sexless lives, free of soul-darning intoxicants.
Listen to mom. She knows best!...
Poor Anne Dixon (Helen Foster) doesn't know the sort of kids with whom she's mingling! After school, instead of studying studiously, these hepcats are busy dancing to the latest devil jazz, whooping it up like the hellbound heathens they are!
When Anne spends the night at Eve Monroe's (Nell O'Day) house, all hades breaks loose! While her mother drinks good, nourishing alcohol, Eve introduces Anne to untoward romance stories! When mom and company depart for the evening, Eve pours Anne a Martini and lights up a tobacco cigarette! Within seconds, Anne is on cloud nine! Perhaps, ten!
The next day, Anne accepts a ride home from school. From a BOY! In a CAR! His name is Tommy.
We can almost hear Jeezuz cry!
Soon, Anne is smoking and drinking semi-regularly, "hanging out" by the lake with those up-to-no-good "friends" of hers! They even go canoeing! In no time, the lust demon flaps his wings over them, leading to unabashed, reprobate behavior! Anne ends up crying like the guilty sinner she's become.
Before long, Anne's out at rustic "lodges" with "the gang", dancing far too close while crooners croon their lilting songs of Satan! Oh, but it's the devil jazz that sets fire to their h-o-r-m-o-n-e-s, sending them into fits of dancing that only savages could enjoy! That's when the men in tuxedos -we know how they are!- move in, introducing Anne to their dim world of darkness.
Tommy's been replaced by Ralph, and Anne's running with a "fast crowd" now! Ralph gives Anne narcotic drinks, sending her into a state of wanton abandon!
The next night, Anne's old friends are dancing the Hully Gully at Brad's big bash. Eve shows her knees! Dice playing breaks out. For money! And clothing! Could these people possibly sink any lower? Yes! They can! Stripping down to their "birthday suits", they go cavorting in the pool! Unclothed "skinny dipping" has erupted! Topless, young men and women! Together! Without shame!
Thank God, a police raid takes place and everyone is taken to the pokey.
Later, Anne and Eve are examined by a doctor, and both are determined to be "sex delinquents"! The shame arrives at last! The tragedy is compounded when Anne discovers that she's "in the family way"! Ralph convinces her to go to a certain physician he knows for a "procedure". The last state of this unfortunate girl is worse than the first!
Anne is doomed. Her life is over. Let us not do as she has done. Let us live clean, sexless lives, free of soul-darning intoxicants.
Listen to mom. She knows best!...