The Road to Ruin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 15) Spies But if their secret gets

But if their secret gets out

founder of Cinevest

folded poster

Co-starring Dick Shawn (The Producers)

and collage effects

The Road to Ruin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 15) Spies But if their secret getsOne of the most popular films of the exploitation cinema was Willis Kents The Road to Ruin, about a group of wholesome high schoolers whose flirtations with vice launch them down a slippery moral slope to death and degradation. Unlike the genres more campy and hysterical scare films, such as Reefer Madness, The Road to Ruin is a finely crafted melodrama that is deceptively effective, building to an unexpectedly devastating climax. Filmed first as a