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Primrose Path (1931 film)

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Primrose Path
Directed byWilliam A. O'Connor
Produced byWillis Kent
StarringHelen Foster
John Darrow
Dorothy Granger
CinematographyHenry Cronjager
Ernest Laszlo
Edited byArthur A. Brooks
Production
company
Distributed byHollywood Pictures
Release date
  • January 25, 1931 (1931-01-25)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Primrose Path (also written as The Primrose Path) is a 1931 American drama film directed by William A. O'Connor and starring Helen Foster, John Darrow and Dorothy Granger.[1]

Plot

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The daughter of a policeman is led astray into a wild life by a star football player at her school, and ends up being expelled. Ashamed she runs away from home, and ends up being tricked into a brothel. She is rescued from it just in time by her former boyfriend, a young motorcycle policeman. Meanwhile, the boy who led her astray dies in a violent car crash after fleeing the law.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Pitts p.167

Bibliography

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  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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