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The Dwelling Place of Light (1920)

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The Dwelling Place of Light (1920)

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


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low

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

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's dominant themes align with progressive values by highlighting class struggle, industrial exploitation, and the plight of the working class, even as its narrative emphasizes individual resilience and moral choices over systemic political solutions.

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 film "The Dwelling Place of Light" (1920) is a silent drama centered on labor relations and romance. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative or character arcs, leading to a determination of N/A for its portrayal.

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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