Take a trip on the ROAD TO RUIN with an ESCORT GIRL

April 24th, 2009 at 09:34am Will Pfeifer

If you’re willing to stay up very late tonight (or, to be more specific, early tomorrow morning), you can catch a strange slice of film history on Turner Classic Movies. The cable channel will be airing a pair of vintage exploitation films starting at 1 a.m.

ROAD TO RUIN (1934) is described by the station as “a devastating attack on teen promiscuity,” and ESCORT GIRL (1941) is “full of the kind of stuff no respectable movie would dare touch, sloppily put together, and unyieldingly entertaining.” Both of them are pretty tame stuff in the early 21st century, but they were hot stuff once upon a time, and seeing characters behave badly in such old movies can be a lot of fun. If you have a lot of coffee, a little insomnia or – easiest of all, a DVR — tune in for this antique, oddball double feature.

For more information on the movies, check out the excellent TCM Underground site here. 

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