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USA 1928
- 1934
One of the most popular films of the exploitation cinema was Willis Kent’s The Road to Ruin, about a group of wholesome high schoolers whose flirtations with vice launch them down a slippery moral slope to death and degradation. Unlike the genre’s more campy and hysterical scare films, such as Reefer Madness, The Road to Ruin is a finely crafted melodrama that is deceptively effective, building to an unexpectedly devastating climax. Filmed first as a silent in 1928 and then remade as a talkie in 1934 (both of which are featured in this edition), The Road to Ruin owes much of its success to actress Helen Foster, who stars in both versions as the love-hungry teen whose need for acceptance leads her to Jazz Age perdition. *** A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion. |
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Theatrical Release: March 23rd, 1928 - March 21st, 1934
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1928: 0:54:34.250 1934: 1:13:57.933 |
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1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 44,850,821,085 bytes1928: 17,544,069,120 bytes 1934: 23,792,437,248 bytes Video Bitrate: 38.97 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1558 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1558 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB |
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Subtitles | English intertitles for 1928 version - English, None for 1934 version | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 44,850,821,085 bytes1928: 17,544,069,120 bytes 1934: 23,792,437,248 bytes Video Bitrate: 38.97 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio commentary for The Road to Ruin (1934) by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films • Audio commentary for The Road to Ruin (1928) by film historian Anthony Slide • Gallery of exploitation trailers
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On their
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Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language (or English intertitles for the 1928 version.)
The Road to Ruin
silent version has a piano score composed and performed by
Andrew Earle
Simpson. It is effectively melancholy in the last 1/3rd of the
film. The film was so popular that a sound version (with no audible
dialogue) was released in 1928 that originally featured a synchronized
musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc (using a
phonograph) and sound-on-film process (the sound accompanying a picture
is actually recorded on photographic film but usually not on the same
strip carrying the picture.) The 1934 film has no credited score and
only diegetic music from a radio, phonograph or nightclub act
(Jimmy Tolson singing Campus Crawl) being used. Dialogue can be
somewhat hollow and weak in the higher end but audible. It is all
mostly clean (minor crackles) in the lossless transfer. Kino offer
optional English subtitles for the 1934 version on their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
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