''The Road to Yesterday'' is a 1925 American
silent romantic drama film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Cecil B. DeMille.
The film is significant because it was Cecil B. DeMille's first release from his new production company, DeMille Pictures Corporation. It was also upcoming actor
William Boyd William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to:
Academics
* William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster
* William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator
* William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), ...
's first starring role. In DeMille's next picture, ''
The Volga Boatman'', which was a tremendous success, he cast Boyd as the solo leading man.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,
[ ] Malena, a young bride, has a fear of her husband Kenneth which she cannot understand but which he attributes to his unprepossessing physical appearance. Finally, angered, the young husband leaves his wife to go to Chicago and have a physical defect overcome, if this be possible. His wife leaves on the same train. The train is wrecked and the young man rescues his wife from death. Thereafter they understand each other.
Cast
Preservation
Prints of ''The Road to Yesterday'' reportedly survive at
George Eastman House
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...
and in private collections.
On September 24, 2013, the film was released on DVD by Alpha Video. Another DVD version was released on July 31, 2014, by The Video Cellar.
References
External links
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The Road to Yesterday (1925) A Silent Film Reviewat moviessilently.com
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1925 films
1925 drama films
Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Producers Distributing Corporation films
Films with screenplays by F. Hugh Herbert
1920s American films
Silent American drama films