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Primrose Path
Directed by	William A. O'Connor
Produced by	Willis Kent
Starring	Helen Foster John Darrow Dorothy Granger
Cinematography	Henry Cronjager Ernest Laszlo
Edited by	Arthur A. Brooks
Production company	Willis Kent Productions
Distributed by	Hollywood Pictures
Release date	January 25, 1931 (1931-01-25)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

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

• Helen Foster as Molly Malone
• John Darrow as Buck Randall
• Dorothy Granger as Rita Johnson
• Lane Chandler as Danny McGann
• DeWitt Jennings as Joe Malone
• Mary Carr as Grandmother
• Virginia Pearson as Marie Randeau
• Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Randall

References

Bibliography

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

External links

• Primrose Path at IMDb
• Primrose Path at the TCM Movie Database
• Primrose Path at AllMovie
• Primrose Path at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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