Collection search - The End of the Road
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Record information – Brief The End of the Road
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1918Item number (ISN):181015Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:HEALTH LEAGUE OF CANADA / LIGUE CANADIENNE DE SANTÉAccession:1982-0180Media:FilmOriginal title:The End of the RoadPart:2 of 2Production date:1918Release date:1919Production company:The American Social Hygiene Association Inc.Production credit:director/producer/scenario, Edward H. Griffith; scenario/story, Katherine Bement Davis; photography, Lucien AndriotCast credit:Richard Bennett, Claire Adams, Joyce Fair, Raymond McKee, Maude Hill, Robert Cain, Arthur Houseman, Alice BradyCountry of production:usSponsor:The War Department Commission on Training Camp ActivitiesDescription:Mary, whose mother has instructed her about love, marriage, and sex, leaves her boyfriend Paul to become a nurse in a New York hospital. Vera, encouraged by her mother to marry a rich man, takes and apartment from a young millionaire who promises marriage but only gives her syphilis. Mary and her doctor treat Vera and show her examples of the ravages of the disease. Mary meets other suffering women: an Irish servant girl betrayed by a chauffeur who dies after her baby is born; a garment worker who contracted syphilis from a soldier's forced kiss; and the invalid wife of a wealthy man whose philandering caused her condition, the blindness of their child, and the suicide of one of his conquests. Paul, about to enlist, suggests he and Mary have sex before he goes. Disappointed in him, Mary also rejects the proposal of her doctor. Mary and the doctor enlist and go overseas to serve. After seeing the kind of man he is, Mary agrees to marry him. <102mn>Language:Silent with English / Français intertitlesNotes:Genre:DRAMADetailed holdings information: -
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