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{{For|the novel by Compton Mackenzie|Poor Relations (novel)}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Poor Relations<br />
| image = Poor Relations 1921 newspaper.jpg<br />
| caption = Contemporary advertisement<br />
| director = [[King Vidor]]<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = King Vidor<br />
| starring = [[Florence Vidor]]<br />
| cinematography = Ira H. Morgan<br />
| editing = <br />
| distributor = [[Robertson-Cole]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1919|11|1}}<br />
| runtime = 50 minutes<br />
| country = United States <br />
| language = Silent with English intertitles<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Poor Relations''''' is a 1919 American [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film]] directed by [[King Vidor]].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PoorRelations1919.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Poor Relations |accessdate=November 5, 2010|work=Silent Era}}</ref> Produced by the Brentwood Corporation, the film starred Vidor’s wife [[Florence Vidor]] and featured comedienne [[ZaSu Pitts]].<ref>Baxter 1976 p. 9</ref><br />
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The picture is the final of four [[Christian Science]] precept films that represent a brief phase in Vidor’s output championing the superiority of self-healing through moral strength and supplemented by the benefits of rural living.<ref>(Gustafssson 2016: “The film “advocated views associated with Christian Science (not to be confused with [[Scientology]], a then relatively new religious movement that came about towards the end of the 19th century and to which Vidor claimed allegiance.”<br>Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 26<br>Baxter 1976 p. 9</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Country girl Dorothy Perkins succeeds as an architect in the city, but then is scorned by her old-money in-laws.<ref>Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 337</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Florence Vidor]] as Dorothy Perkins<br />
* [[Lillian Leighton]] as Ma Perkins<br />
* [[William De Vaull]] as Pa Perkins (as William Du Vaull)<br />
* [[Roscoe Karns]] as Henry<br />
* [[ZaSu Pitts]] as Daisy Perkins<br />
* [[Charles Meredith (actor)|Charles Meredith]] as Monty Rhodes<br />
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==Reception==<br />
The reviews were "poor". ''[[Motion Picture Daily|Exhibitors Trade Review]]'' observed that "the slender, fragile story has just about all it can do to make its way through the new-mown hay atmosphere."<ref>Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 337: ETR 25 October 1919.</ref><br />
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==Theme==<br />
Poor Relations provides an early example of Vidor’s “feminist” presentation of professional and independent women, emphasizing reciprocal exchanges between the sexes.<ref>Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 15: Vidor a “natural feminist” in that his female protagonists “drive men crazy, or inspire them, and do what they want, without becoming superior beings.” and the “reciprocity [between men and women] constitute its mainspring.”<br>Baxter 1976 p. 14: Baxter identifies [[The Real Adventure]] and [[Woman, Wake Up]], both 1922, as early feminist cinema by Vidor.</ref><br />
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==Footnotes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Baxter, John. 1976. ''King Vidor''. Simon & Schuster, Inc. Monarch Film Studies. LOC Card Number 75-23544.<br />
*[[Raymond Durgnat|Durgnat, Raymond]] and Simmon, Scott. 1988. ''King Vidor, American.'' University of California Press, Berkeley. {{ISBN|0-520-05798-8}}<br />
*[[Fredrik Gustafsson (film historian)|Gustafsson, Fredrik]]. 2016. ''King Vidor, An American Romantic'' La furia umana. LFU/28 Winter 2016. http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/61-archive/lfu-28/548-fredrik-gustafsson-king-vidor-an-american-romantic Retrieved 4 June 2020.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=0010580|title=Poor Relations}}<br />
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{{King Vidor}}<br />
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