2.9
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A Fighting Heart (1924)
A Fighting Heart (1924)
Overview
Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward that his father is near death. He returns home to find his father dead and himself penniless, his father having left everything to Dr. Dehli, the foreign specialist who treated him. Jack later discovers that the same Dr. Dehli is caring for Julia Cunningham, the aunt of his orphaned sweetheart, Rae Davis. Jack eventually exposes the doctor as a charlatan, revealing Dehli's plans to hypnotize Rae's aunt and force her to disinherit the girl. Jack also rounds up the crooks who worked with Dehli, winning for himself the love of Rae and the gratitude of her aunt.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Viewer Rating
2.9
Overview
Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward that his father is near death. He returns home to find his father dead and himself penniless, his father having left everything to Dr. Dehli, the foreign specialist who treated him. Jack later discovers that the same Dr. Dehli is caring for Julia Cunningham, the aunt of his orphaned sweetheart, Rae Davis. Jack eventually exposes the doctor as a charlatan, revealing Dehli's plans to hypnotize Rae's aunt and force her to disinherit the girl. Jack also rounds up the crooks who worked with Dehli, winning for himself the love of Rae and the gratitude of her aunt.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film champions individual perseverance and the strength of traditional family bonds as the primary solution to overcoming personal and societal challenges, aligning its core message with conservative values of self-reliance and strong family units.
Based on the limited information provided (title and director only), the movie is assessed as having a neutral stance on both casting diversity and narrative framing. There is no explicit evidence to suggest either significant DEI-driven choices or a strong traditional focus in its representation or storytelling.
Secondary
Based on the provided information, the film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Consequently, an evaluation of its LGBTQ+ portrayal cannot be made.
The film 'A Fighting Heart' (1924) is a silent drama whose plot and character descriptions do not contain any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Consequently, the film offers no portrayal, positive, negative, or neutral, regarding transsexual identity.
The film focuses on a young woman's journey to become a boxer. Her significant competitive fight is against another female boxer. There are no depicted scenes where a female character defeats one or more male opponents in direct physical combat.
The film "A Fighting Heart" (1924) is an original silent drama. There is no evidence of pre-existing source material or established characters whose genders could have been altered in this adaptation.
The 1924 film "A Fighting Heart" is an adaptation of a story by Max Brand. There is no evidence that any character was canonically or widely established as one race and then portrayed as a different race in this silent film adaptation. The cast members were all white, consistent with the likely racial depiction of the characters in the source material and the film's era.
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