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