Dangerous Curve Ahead is a 1921 American silent comedy starring Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Phoebe Mabee (Chadwick) is a much sought after small town belle who quarrels with her fiancé Harley Jones (Dix) after a flirtation with city youth Anson Newton (Flynn).

Jones is sent abroad by his job and she her children spend the summer at a watering place, where Phoebe meets her city charmer and the romance interrupted by her marriage is renewed.

Jones the absent husband returns unexpectedly and finds one of the children ill and Phoebe about to keep an appointment to attend a function at Mrs. Nixon's house.

Phoebe waivers between fear that failure to attend the function will end her budding social career and the love of her child.