Leans Traditional
7.0
Boom Town
(1940)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
The Dwelling Place of Light (1920)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in love with a stockholder named Brooks Insall, witnesses her mother shoot the boss during the strike, is wrongly imprisoned but exonerated by Insall, and ultimately enjoys a happy future with him, her recovered mother, and her sister Elsie.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Overview
After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in love with a stockholder named Brooks Insall, witnesses her mother shoot the boss during the strike, is wrongly imprisoned but exonerated by Insall, and ultimately enjoys a happy future with him, her recovered mother, and her sister Elsie.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film is rated Left-Leaning due to its sympathetic portrayal of working-class struggles and critique of industrial exploitation, aligning with progressive values concerning social justice and inequality.
This film, released in 1920, features traditional casting with a predominantly white cast. Its narrative does not present critiques of traditional identities, instead framing them neutrally or positively.
Secondary
The film 'The Dwelling Place of Light' does not feature any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative, typical of its era, focuses on social issues and heterosexual relationships, resulting in no specific portrayal of queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1920 film "The Dwelling Place of Light" is an adaptation of Winston Churchill's 1917 novel. A review of the main characters in both the source material and the film adaptation reveals no instances where a character's established gender was changed.
The 1920 film adapts a 1917 novel set in New England, where characters were implicitly or explicitly white. The main characters in the film adaptation are portrayed by white actors, aligning with the source material's racial depictions.
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