6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Overview
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
Overview
Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film champions individual resilience and self-reliance in a harsh frontier setting, with its narrative solution rooted in personal strength and traditional bonds rather than systemic or collective action.
The movie features primarily traditional casting, consistent with its Western genre and source material, without any apparent intentional race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, without incorporating explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
The film, consistent with its Western genre and Louis L'Amour's themes, subtly portrays Christian-influenced morality and hope as positive attributes. Characters' resilience, compassion, and occasional expressions of faith in a higher power are depicted as integral to their survival and moral strength in the face of adversity.
This Western film, based on a Louis L'Amour novel, focuses on traditional frontier themes and characters. There are no discernible LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes present in the story, resulting in no depiction to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1986 film is an adaptation of Louis L'Amour's novel. A review of the main characters and plot indicates no significant character whose gender was changed from the source material.
Based on Louis L'Amour's novel, the film adaptation portrays its characters, including the central figure Hardy, consistent with their established racial depictions in the source material. No instances of a character canonically established as one race being portrayed as a different race were identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
5.8
Critic Ratings
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