The Bigamist (1953)

Directed by

Ida Lupino

Genre

drama film, film noir, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 119 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A traveling salesman secretly maintains two separate households with two different women. His double life is exposed when he applies to adopt a child with one wife. The film explores his relationships and the emotional fallout from his deception.

melancholictensesomberintrospectiveclaustrophobicrestrainedseriousmorally complex

What happens

The Bigamist is a 1953 American drama film noir directed by Ida Lupino starring herself, Joan Fontaine, Edmond O'Brien, and Edmund Gwenn. Producer/Screenwriter Collier Young was married to Fontaine at the time and had previously been married to Lupino. The Bigamist has been cited as the first American feature film made in the sound era in which the female star of a film directed herself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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