Daddy Long Legs
1955 · 126 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 4,415 VOTES · DIR. Jean Negulesco
Overview
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and-despite their large age difference-they soon fall in love.
Dialogue Timeline - 1,369 lines
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00:02:18 This is a Renoir.
00:06:07 coal mining output can be stepped up...
00:12:20 Oh, an American. How do you do, Mr. Pendleton? I am Madame Savanne.
00:16:06 You better think twice before you even get into it.
00:20:08 Look, here is a letter from the American ambassador.
00:24:39 Could do a whole lot more
00:30:26 Well, most of the words, yes, but the meaning, l-
00:33:15 - Eh? - Swell, it's a deal.
00:38:07 "It is very hard to go on writing to a- a thing.
00:41:59 - She's in love with you. - Y-What?
00:46:05 Grab your gal and swing her like thunder
00:55:59 So if you just go and stand under your initial...
01:00:08 Oh, no. Great strength.
01:03:23 Hey, you.
01:10:27 Jervis Pendleton, and you can leave off the "uncle," if you don't mind.
01:14:15 - Shouldn't I have come alone? - Oh, yes. Of course. Certainly.
01:19:07 Fight, fight, fight, fight
01:28:32 To America for letting me come.
01:32:55 and I just happened to have an opening in Bolivia.
01:37:49 - Hi. - Hi, Julie.
01:54:33 You have security, and a duller life nobody ever led.
01:58:33 It's too late now. Don't you dare move. Yeah?
02:01:25 - Griggs. - Yes?
03:06:04 New York City."
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,369
Dialogue density10.9 lines / min
First line00:02:18
Final line03:06:04
Production Record
DirectorJean Negulesco
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,415