
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.... (Full plot summary below)
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Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzGot trapped in a ridiculous deep-freeze as if trying its best to make the bigamist into an Albert Schweitzer. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceDrags its all-star cast through soap-opera melodramatics of a very high order. |
| Film ThreatPhil HallPoorly cast and plotted, but still weirdly interesting. |
| The SpectatorIsabel QuiglyA splendid, heartless, virtuoso's performance it is again, larger than life and larger, too, than the film in which it finds itself. |
| User ReviewLuc LA very good film with a controversial subject. |
| User ReviewAnne FVery melodramatic, very 1950s but pretty good at making us feel sorry for the bigamist, rather than thinking of him as an evil family-wrecking lawbreaker. |
| User ReviewBob VFun little B-movie which should be hella exploitive, but it really is not. It's actually, believe it or not, more film-noirish then anything else. Edmund O'Brien plays the title character, and yes, he's got two lives and wives, the smart but somewhat dumb Ida Lupino, and the cold but somewhat dumb Joan Fontaine. Both love the lug, and he loves both of them! Oh no! Things don't go to well when Fontaine and O'Brien want to adopt a kid, and the agency snoops around. Then it goes to flashback land to reveal's O'Brien's quite believable story. Amazingly directed by Lupino, this should be a must see, as you don't really get a lot of movies like this starring and directed at the same time by a woman. Great movie! |
| User ReviewAnna NGood kitchen-sink melodrama with a charmingly stiff performance by Edmund O'Brien. Lupino was one of the first woman to be directing in Hollywood (usually on a taboo against the safe morals of the 50's) and she uses a deft hand at showing 'true' emotion with the two women O'Brien's character is married to. |
| User ReviewNate WIt's plainly obvious from the opening minutes of "The Bigamist" that Harry Graham is living a double life, but his secret is discovered early on, and the film then proceeds to tell the story of how Graham came to be in such a situation. Made in 1953, the subject matter flew in the face of the everyman American dream. Thanks to a strong performance from Edmond O'Brien, the film portrays what could have been an unlikable, despicable character as a conflicted, sympathetic antihero. |
| User ReviewDavid BEdmond O'Brien marries the barren Joan Fontaine and then gets hitched to Ida Lupino and knocks her up. Not a bad movie, just kinda average but it's got some good performances. The ending is a little too neat and nice also. |