The Road to France
Cast & Crew
Dell Henderson
Carlyle Blackwell
Evelyn Greeley
Jack Drumier
Muriel Ostriche
George De Carlton
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Tom Whitney, a dissipated young man whose father has disinherited him, attempts to kill himself after learning that the draft board has rejected him because of an old football injury. The policeman who prevents the suicide suggests that Tom take a job in the shipping industry, which has been badly in need of workers since the United States entered the war. Consequently, Tom goes to work in the shipyard owned by John Bemis, the father of Helen, his ex-fiancée. There Tom proves himself to be a valuable worker, and later he discovers that three of the laborers - Burns, Winter and Kraus - are actually German spies who plan to foment a strike in the yard. Tom prevents this, but when Burns kills Bemis, Winter accuses Tom of murder. Through a trick, Tom causes them to reveal their guilt, which renews Helen's faith in her old flame. Reunited, the couple watches as the great ship Liberty is launched.
Director
Dell Henderson
Cast
Carlyle Blackwell
Evelyn Greeley
Jack Drumier
Muriel Ostriche
George De Carlton
Jane Sterling
Richard R. Neill
Inez Shannon
Henry West
Alex K. Shannon
Joseph Smiley
James Gunnis Davis
Elizabeth Kennedy
Albert Hart
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Allies was the film's working title. A quotation from Edward N. Hurley, the chairman of the United States Shipping Board, served as the basis for the title: "I want the American people to know how our giant shipbuilding industry has sprung up overnight-building the Road to France." Chairman Hurley is shown at the opening of the picture, and the building of American ships is pictured throughout. Reviewers disagree on certain details of the plot. Contemporary sources for the film listed actor Gunnis Davis as either James Gunnis Davis or James Davis
