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Hell's Highroad

Hell's Highroad

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 18, 1925

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Hell's Highroad

Production Companies

DeMille Pictures Corporation

Director

Rupert Julian

Description

Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join him in New York, but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance. Unfortunately, the amount adds up to less than ten dollars a week. When she meets banker Sanford Gillespie (Robert Edeson), she convinces him to help McKane out financially. Once McKane has become a success, Judy marries him, but then he becomes interested in another woman. Judy seeks revenge and asks Gillespie to ruin her estranged husband, offering him anything he wants in return.