Leans Traditional
7.3
Descendent
(2025)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Cheating the Public (1918)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's title, "Cheating the Public," identifies a universally condemned problem of exploitation and lack of accountability. Without specific plot details or an understanding of the film's proposed solutions, it is impossible to determine a specific political bias, leading to a neutral rating.
This film is assessed as having no explicit DEI elements. Based on the available information and typical cinematic practices of its likely era, it is presumed to feature traditional casting and a narrative that does not critique traditional identities or center DEI themes.
Secondary
The provided information for 'Cheating the Public' does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Consequently, an evaluation of its portrayal is not possible, leading to an N/A rating for LGBTQ+ representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
As an original film from 1918, "Cheating the Public" introduced its characters without prior canonical or historical gender establishments. Therefore, no characters could have undergone a gender swap.
There is no evidence that "Cheating the Public" (1918) is an adaptation of source material with established character races or a biopic of a historical figure whose race was altered. The film does not contain any instances of a race swap.
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