THE BIGAMIST
(The Filmakers) Y Cert. MANY people who should know better imagine that to fall in love with another woman a man must first fall out of love with his wife. The Bigamist is the story of a home-loving, wife-loving man who not only fell in love with another woman but, when he -found she was bearing his child, married her. Of course, he didn’t get away with it: he
was found out because he tried, by adoption, to give his first wife the child she couldn’t bear. What happened after that you must see for yourself, but this courageous film never sells out. Harry was a traveller-not the legendary traveller, but a gentle fellow who on a weekend away from home felt his loneliness like a pain. When he got on to the phone to his wife he felt twice as lonely. She was in the business, too, and that was what she talked about. So one lonely Saturday, as clumsily as you'd expect, he picked up a girl. She, it turned out, was as lonely as he was, and in a way he never intended a warm, desperate affection grew between them. For the first time in his life he felt needed. With sensitive, sympathetic playing by Edmond O'Brien as Harry, Joan Fontaine as the wife, and Ida Lupino as the other. woman, and by Edmund Gwenn as the investigator for the adoption agency, The Bigamist isn’t just a story of a good man gone wrong: it shines a light into the human heart and mind. Directed by Ida Lupino with an imaginative hand and eye, it has that disturbing quality we look for in her work, whether as actress or director. I found it quite haunting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 31
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290THE BIGAMIST New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 31
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