6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Overview
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's focus on individual justice, love, and the pursuit of truth within a personal drama, rather than engaging with systemic issues or promoting specific ideologies, renders its political stance neutral.
This 1951 film features traditional casting with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative does not include explicit critiques of traditional identities or central DEI themes, aligning with the filmmaking conventions of its era.
Secondary
The film 'Lightning Strikes Twice' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focuses entirely on heterosexual relationships and a crime drama, resulting in a determination of N/A for LGBTQ+ portrayal.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This film is a direct adaptation of the 1940 novel "A Murderer in the House." A review of the main characters in both the source material and the film reveals no instances where a character's established gender was altered for the screen.
The 1951 film "Lightning Strikes Twice" is an adaptation of a 1940 novel. There is no evidence that any character canonically established as one race in the source material was portrayed as a different race in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
5.7
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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