I just saw this movie for the first time.
I had no idea what to expect of the story. After all, we go into it knowing he was a bigamist. It turned out to be a very interesting story, after all.
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I just saw it 6/26 on Turner Classics & liked it. Unfortunately my only exposure to Ida Lupino was in a 1977 Charlie's Angels episode in which she played an aging film actress trying to revive her career while someone is trying to gaslight her. Ms. Lupino was, to be kind, horrible. She........had........a...........habit...........of...............pausing.........in.............between.............every................word................she............spoke.
But I was pleasantly surprised by not only her acting in this film, but in her direction as well.
Truly ironic is in the ending scene in which the bigamist's lawyer notes that if he had simply kept Phyllis as his mistress people would have winked and/or looked the other way. But because he married her and gave his child his name & respectability, he was being tried for breaking the law.
Good stuff for the early fifties!
I saw some of it this morning but didn't have time to watch the whole thing. But as far as I could tell, the guy started to run around on his wife, not because she didn't love him, but simply because she was working in HIS business and trying to help HIM out. It wasn't like she didn't love him any more. A few attempts at romantic evenings alone don't work out, so he goes out and marries another woman! Boo-hoo, poor baby. I had no sympathy for him at all.
There was some good acting, though. I didn't recognize Joan Fontaine at all, and I've seen her in several movies! I kept thinking she looked familiar but had to come here to see who she was. :-)
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But don't you get the feeling that there was no intimacy in his first marriage?
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We old folks do take forever to get a sentence out. If you and I were having a conversation in the living room, you could listen to my opening word of a sentence, go out to the kitchen for a cup of coffee and get back in time for the period at the end of the sentence. You just have to be patient with us, honey.
That movie was good for any era! Certainly better than any of the mindless sex and gore epics of today. But you know that, or you would not be seeking out old black and whites!
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
But since he was already married, his second "marriage" was invalid and thus the second "wife" gained no "respectability", No?
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