
Herbert and Pamela are happily married with two children. Then Pamela gets a letter from Herbert's other wife.

London, 1921. A year before Hitchcock christened the thriller with Number 13, another British filmmaker—actor-auteur Guy Newall—slipped a cyanide capsule into the institution of marriage and recorded the contortions for posterity. The Bigamist arrives not as antique curio but as a scalpel still wet, dissecting masculi...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Guy Newall

J. Gordon Edwards
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" London, 1921. A year before Hitchcock christened the thriller with Number 13, another British filmmaker—actor-auteur Guy Newall—slipped a cyanide capsule into the institution of marriage and recorded the contortions for posterity. The Bigamist arrives not as antique curio but as a scalpel still wet, dissecting masculine cowardice with a precision that makes post-#MeToo dramas feel like they’re fumbling with blunt safety-scissors. Shot on shoestring sets that wobble when doors slam, the film no..."
Ivy Duke
F.E. Mills Young, Guy Newall
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