[2] This film was targeted at young women with warnings about premarital sex and venereal disease and was notably produced during World War I.

They rescue Vera from a drunken companion on one occasion, but are unable to prevent her from accepting the unlawful love of the same wealthy young man later on.

The End of the Road was sponsored by the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), a US agency created in 1917 with the primary goal of reducing the spread of venereal disease among US troops.

Its writer, Katharine Bement Davis, was a sociologist and director of the Committee on Protective Work for Girls, under the United States Department of War.

[5] The End of the Road was originally intended to be screened for small private audiences of women such as church groups or at YWCAs, with a lecturer speaking through the viewing and guiding discussion, and it was exhibited in this way during the war.