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Auction History Result 5c012 ROAD TO RUIN 3sh '34 art of Devil over bad teens, modern youth burned at altar of ignorance! Date Sold 3/9/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) The Road to Ruin, the 1934 Dorothy Davenport & Melville Shyer bad girl teen romantic crime melodrama ("Is modern youth burned at the altar of ignorance?"; "A timely warning to parents of today"; "Adults only"; about a 16-year-old girl, neglected by her parents, who starts smoking, drinking, doing drugs, and having affairs with older men, gets arrested, then finds out she's pregnant so she has to get an illegal abortion, and very sadly, while she is recuperating, she realizes that her troubles are all her own fault, but then she dies!) starring Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles, Robert Quirk (billed as "Bobby Quirk"), and Paul Page. Note that this was a remake of the 1928 silent movie of the same name, which also starred Helen Foster. Note that our research seems to show that one of the differences between this movie and the silent version is that addition of the use of drugs to this version, which is not surprising, given that co-director Dorothy Davenport was the widow of silent star Wallace Reid, who died of a drug overdose. After this death, his widow spent much of the next decades crusading against the abuse of drugs, with movies like "Human Wreckage". Finally, note that co-director Melville Shyer is the father of noted film director Charles Shyer, who has directed many popular films from the 1970s on, including "Father of the Bride", "Private Benjamin", and many others! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster is undated, but we strongly suspect it is from the 1934 version of this movie, and not the 1928 silent version. We found newspaper ads for both versions, and they have surprisingly similar advertising, but the exact tagline on this poster was used in a 1934 newspaper ad from Plainview, Texas, so that cinches it for us! This is the only poster we have ever auctioned from this movie! Also note that this three-sheet was printed in 3 sections designed to overlap. Condition: good to very good. The section of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded has some tears, tiny paper loss, and darkening on the folds that were on the outside. The other two sections have a lesser number of tiny tears and tiny areas of paper loss. There are tiny pinholes around the edges, where the poster was attached to a wall. After a simple linenbacking, the poster will display wonderfully. Learn More about condition grades 
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