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The Bigamist

Duración
85 minBFI 85-minute presentation Fuentes de las versiones ↓

An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.

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Idioma
English
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An empty chair sits between the cropped edges of two dining tables viewed from above.

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The Bigamist ending: what happens to Harry and his two wives?

The investigation and the courtroom leave different questions open. Read this after watching to place the final scene.

The investigation and courtroom ending · Spoilers

Does Harry choose a wife at the end?

The film ends before Harry’s sentence or either woman’s future decision is shown. The judge adjourns until the following week, and Harry is led away while Eve and Phyllis watch. The judge doubts that either woman will wait for him; that is his assessment, not a decision spoken by the women. The story gives us no reconciliation and no scene of Harry settling with one wife.

Does the investigator report Harry?

AFI’s synopsis separates Mr. Jordan’s decision from Harry’s. Jordan hears his confession and leaves without calling the police. Harry then writes to Phyllis, says goodbye to Eve, and gives himself up. The courtroom follows his surrender; it does not establish that Jordan secretly reported him.

His double life has been exposed. What the women will make of the truth belongs to a future the film leaves outside the frame.

Qué esperar

Lupino refuses a single convenient villain. Her direction moves among three adults whose needs do not fit the moral and domestic arrangements available to them, finding judgement without flattening complexity.

Cómo entrar en la película

The confession is the main path through the film. Pay attention to how work travel and separate cities allow Harry to postpone a decision until delay itself becomes the decision.

A tener en cuenta

Una breve nota no exhaustiva Includes bigamy, infidelity, pregnancy, emotional abandonment, adoption anxiety, and period gender expectations.
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Harry explains himself clearly, but explanation is not repair. I am most interested in the women’s different kinds of isolation and the limits of sympathy once another person has been denied the truth.

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Créditos y versiones

Créditos
Producción
Collier Young · Filmakers Productions, Inc.
Fotografía
George Diskant

Mapa de versiones

BFI 85-minute presentation 85 min 85 minutes is attached only to the named BFI 85-minute presentation. No unsupported cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration detail is inferred. Fuente: British Film Institute — The Bigamist Referencia de duración · Comprobado el 2026-08-21

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