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Edmund O'Brien, the soft, sweaty Everyman of so much early-'50s film noir, is cast as a sympathetic bigamist in Ida Lupino's 1953 film; a traveling salesman married to a frigid Joan Fontaine in San Francisco, he lets his loneliness lead him into a Los Angeles relationship with a hard-boiled waitress (Lupino, directing herself to one of her definitive damaged-goods performances). Hollywood's only significant woman filmmaker of the '50s, Lupino scrutinized and often criticized the sexual stereotypes of her time, and O'Brien is no moustache-twirling predator but a fundamentally decent man trapped by his own sense of responsibility. The on-the-fly, location shooting offers a hyperrealistic, street-level depiction of the seamy side of Los Angeles, epitomized by the hideous Chinese restaurant in which Lupino works, while Fontaine is positioned in an artificial soundstage world of penthouses and boardrooms. Defiantly violating any number of social taboos, The Bigamist is sensitive, meticulous filmmaking from a neglected master. --Dave Kehr
| ACTORS: | Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ida Lupino |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 December, 1953 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Englewood Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 645652202039 |
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Low-Budget Masterpiece Ida Lupino both directs and co-stars. As a director she specialized in small, intimate films about the desperate circumstances of ordinary people. Here, it's Edmund O'Brien, Ida, and Joan Fontaine as the unlikely trio caught up in a bigamist scandal.
O'Brien is the likable, hapless character of the title; Ida is the warm-hearted waitress for whom he becomes a bigamist. And Joan Fontaine is the haughty blonde wife who drove him to it. Excellent performances by all.