After Mary Willis leaves her husband, Fred, for life in the city, their daughter, Dolly, is placed in a convent school. Several years pass and Mary is now working in an underworld roadhouse, financed by a suspicious Italian named Tony Leonardo.
George P. Frazer
United States
The silent era often grappled with the seismic shift from agrarian stability to the chaotic, often predatory nature of the burgeoning American city. The Chosen Path, directed with a surprisingly modern sense of spatial dread, serves as a quintessential artifact of this cultural anxiety. It is not merely a melodrama; ...
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" The silent era often grappled with the seismic shift from agrarian stability to the chaotic, often predatory nature of the burgeoning American city. The Chosen Path, directed with a surprisingly modern sense of spatial dread, serves as a quintessential artifact of this cultural anxiety. It is not merely a melodrama; it is a searing interrogation of the maternal instinct when pitted against the relentless machinery of survival and greed. George P. Frazer’s screenplay avoids the easy sentimental..."
1906 · IMDb 3
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