The Uphill Path


1918

Film Details

Also Known As
The Girl with a Past
Release Date
Jan 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Frank A Keeney Pictures Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

Synopsis

Ruth Travers, the young niece and ward of Howard Mason, elopes with Chadwick Blake to ecape the advances of Gilbert Hilton, whom her uncle wants to force upon her to cover his embezzlement of Ruth's small fortune. She discovers too late that Blake already has a wife, but makes the best of the situation until Mason's death, just after he has made a lucky gambling coup, leaves her a little money. Determined to escape, she goes to a small town where minister Daniel Clarkson becomes interested in her. Because James Lawton had sought a marriage between Clarkson and his daughter, when Blake turns up, and Lawton learns the story, he denounces Ruth to the minister. When Clarkson learns the truth, he forgives Ruth and, knowing that he will lose his position, he enlists, promising to return and marry her when the war is over.

Film Details

Also Known As
The Girl with a Past
Release Date
Jan 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Frank A Keeney Pictures Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

Quotes

Trivia

Notes

The Library of Congress catalog record for this film includes the credit "Hansen's Big Electric Road Show," which May have been a state rights distributor. The working title for this film was The Girl with a Past. According to pre-release news items, this production was shot at the Biograph Studios in the Bronx and in Englewood, NJ. Catherine Calvert was Paul Armstrong's widow and starred in all of Frank Keeney's films. Pre-release news items indicated that the William L. Sherry Service was to be the distributor, but the film was never listed in release charts under Sherry.