The Lost Moment
1947 · 89 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 1,400 VOTES · DIR. Martin Gabel
Overview
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
Dialogue Timeline — 703 lines
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00:01:37 The glory of the world is its scattered beauty.
00:04:23 He came to this house as a guest, to have Martin Bordereau
00:07:28 If I'm...
00:10:49 Mr. Burton is here.
00:14:31 We need the money. And you're willing to pay an extravagant price for this.
00:18:09 Going to be a pretty room now. -I'm glad you like it.
00:21:32 Miss Juliana's feeling very well this morning.
00:24:45 A normally young man wouldn't want to live in that house at an end of time.
00:29:19 Curiosities? -Antiquities. Old Jim cracks.
00:32:08 Who was that playing? -Good night, Mr. Burton.
00:38:23 away from his suspicion and hate, and that horrible spying old woman.
00:41:30 She say she had no use for the gondola.
00:43:46 I purchased a painting from her, a miniature.
00:46:21 Why this is charming, Lewis, charming.
00:49:14 I hope that Charles, um, mr. Russell
00:51:29 and you saw her. And somehow you got the ring.
00:54:12 She liked to hear them over and over again.
01:01:18 I don't know. I don't.
01:06:02 You're a good girl, Amelia.
01:08:46 She never had a chance. There was no escape.
01:12:35 I know this place.
01:17:04 Well, thank you very much, Alberto. -Is our dinner ready?
01:20:05 And what they leave behind, Tina, the glow.. the shadow...
01:28:27 "Forever Jeffrey"