6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Band of Angels (1957)
Band of Angels (1957)
Overview
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
6.2
Overview
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
While addressing the inherently political subject of slavery and racial prejudice, the film prioritizes individual melodrama and romantic redemption over a systemic critique or a call for social justice, thus maintaining a neutral ideological stance.
The movie features casting that aligns with traditional practices of its time, without intentional race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative, while exploring themes of race and slavery, does not critically portray traditional identities (white, male) and maintains a neutral to positive framing of its white male protagonist.
Secondary
The film portrays many Christian adherents and institutions in the antebellum South as deeply hypocritical, using their faith to justify the brutal institution of slavery. The narrative implicitly critiques this perversion of religious principles, highlighting the cruelty and moral bankruptcy of those who claim piety while perpetrating injustice.
Band of Angels (1957) does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a woman's journey through racial identity, slavery, and romance in the Civil War era, without engaging with queer identities or experiences.
Band of Angels (1957) does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The film's storyline is centered on racial identity, slavery, and romance in the antebellum South, therefore, the portrayal of transsexual individuals is not applicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1957 film "Band of Angels" is a direct adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1955 novel. All significant characters in the film retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The film's protagonist, Amantha Starr, is a mixed-race character who passes as white in the source novel. The film portrays her with a white actress, which aligns with her visual presentation and the plot point of her passing, rather than changing her established race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.2
Critic Ratings
6.0
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