Poor Relations
Poor Relations is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor.[2] 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.[3] Country girl Dorothy Perkins succeeds as an architect in the city, but then is scorned by her old-money in-laws.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."[5] Poor Relations provides an early example of Vidor’s “feminist” presentation of professional and independent women, emphasizing reciprocal exchanges between the sexes.