The Road to Yesterday
The Road to Yesterday is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film was based on a 1908 play of the same name by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and was adapted by Dix and Jeanie MacPherson. Art direction for the film was done by Paul Iribe, Anton Grot, Mitchell Leisen, and Max Parker.
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.
More details
| author | Howard Hawks Jeanie MacPherson |
|---|---|
| director | Cecil B. DeMille Frank Urson |
| editor | Anne Bauchens |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | young man |
| musicBy | Rudolph Berliner |
| producer | Cecil B. DeMille |
| productionCompany | De Mille Pictures Corp. |
| publisher | Producers Distributing Corporation |
| theme | romantic drama |