Adultery Film Tidbits

Ricardo Cortez, Loretta Young and Frank Albertson in Big Business Girl (1931)

A husband catches his wife with another man in Cornelius Krieghoff's "The Jealous Husband." 

Ricardo Cortez, Loretta Young and Frank Albertson in Big Business Girl (1931)

Joan Crawford and Frank Braidwood in The Circle (1925)

Mala Powers is the Other Woman in City That Never Sleeps (1953).

Claire Maurier is an unfaithful wife and mother in The 400 Blows (1959).

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine contend with marital infidelity in X, Y and Zee (1972).

The Cads

Lew Cody

Warren William

Ricardo Cortez

A husband is more likely to preserve his marriage if he is observant.

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

An adultery film allows a scriptwriter to easily create dramatic scenes.  Adultery brings us into a world of harrowing suspicion, devious subterfuge and angry confrontation.

This video includes clips from the following films:

Big Business Girl (1931)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Nickelodeon (1976) 
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

My extensive study of adultery films can be found at this Amazon link.

Loretta Young, Dorothy Christy and Frank Albertson in Big Business Girl (1931)