Paths to Paradise
About Paths to Paradise
Raymond Griffith, billed as the Dude from Duluth, poses as a detective and tricks the Chinatown thief Molly, played by Betty Compson, into handing over her money as a bribe. The two then join forces to steal a necklace. Historians filling in the lost last reel say the pair are chased from California into Baja California, decide to return the necklace, and mean to go straight. That ending is not on the surviving print.
Cast & crew
More about Paths to Paradise
Clarence Badger directed. The scenario is by Keene Thompson, from Paul Armstrong's 1914 play The Heart of a Thief. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky produced it for Famous Players-Lasky. Paramount distributed it. The release length was 7 reels, 6,741 feet. Thomas Santschi plays detective chief Callahan.
Themes
Preservation
An incomplete print found in the 1970s is essentially complete except for the final reel. Accounts of the Baja California ending come from synopses of that missing reel.
Notes
- Bert Woodruff plays a bride's father. Fred Kelsey plays a confederate.
- Edgar Kennedy is listed in some cast records, without a role attached.
- The film was treated as lost until an incomplete print surfaced in the 1970s.
