Ida Lupino is well known as an actress but not as a director. This is probably because she mostly did television directing, and was uncredited for her help on Ray's classic On Dangerous Ground. Still, the three films I have rated for her: The Hitch-Hiker (1953), The Trouble With Angels (1966), and this film, are all at a 6 rating. For the most part, she keeps things real, and relatively intelligent in her movies.
The Bigamist is certainly an oddity, most particularly because the title character is sympathetically portrayed. That is one of the strength's of Lupino's films -- there is no real bad or good. All of the four main characters -- the double-husband (O'Brien), his first wife (Fontaine), the second wife (Lupino), and the adoption agency bureaucrat (Gwenn) who unravels the duel setup -- all have their positive and negative points.
The acting is fine and the story is told through flashbacks. I might even be tempted to give it a 7 rating, but the movie is handicapped by having to explain its morality over and over to the 1950's audience. Unfortunately, Lupino is just ahead of her time here. As I said, a 6.
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