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Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
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Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills poster

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...
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Primary

The film's central narrative champions individual self-reliance, resilience, and the strength of personal bonds as the solution to extreme adversity in the American West, aligning with conservative values of personal responsibility and grit.

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 film "Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills" (1986) is a Western adventure focusing on a young boy and a dog's survival. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative, nor are there any depictions that could be interpreted as related to transgender identity. Therefore, the film has no net impact on the portrayal of transsexual individuals.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The 1986 film adaptation of Louis L'Amour's novel "Down the Long Hills" maintains the original genders of its primary characters, including the young protagonist Hardy Collins. No significant character's gender was altered 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

6.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.4
The Movie Database logo
5.8

Critic Ratings

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