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A salesman marries a wealthy woman from a blue-blooded L.A. family (Fontaine) and a street-smart waitress in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant. Driven to this agonizing extreme more by his big heart than lust, the bigamist strains to keep his double life a secret from the women he truly loves. Curiously non-judgmental, .. Read more

Starring	Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien
Director	Ida Lupino
Genres	Drama

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- Minor melodrama which took its subject seriously but failed to make absorbing drama of it. Very much a family affair, starring the producer's present and past wives, the latter also directing.
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  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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  Drama with a Twist!
  
  This has got to be one of the most bizzare yet camptivating movies I have ever seen! The viewer becomes torn between the dependency of both women on O'brien... read more »
  
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  Attitudes have thankfully changed with time so forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia have reduced, if not disappeared completely. One clear indication of ... read more »
  
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  dated but great story
  
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  dated but great story
  
  directed by one of its female stars, Ida Lupino - a rarity in itself in those years. This has a great story and is compassionate in its telling of the story of... read more »
  
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- Minor melodrama which took its subject seriously but failed to make absorbing drama of it. Very much a family affair, starring the producer's present and past wives, the latter also directing.
- 35066
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
- One of Lupino's sympathetic little problem pictures. Its weakness, perhaps, is that in trying to avoid the obvious of... read more on Time Out
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  A salesman marries a wealthy woman from a blue-blooded L.A. family (Fontaine) and a street-smart waitress in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant. Driven to this agonizing extreme more by his big heart than lust, the bigamist strains to keep his double life a secret from the women he truly loves. ...