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
00:07:25 This, um, seems the perfect place to write.
00:10:39 My aunt is very, very old. Try not to stay too long.
00:14:23 Since you, uh, feel so strongly about me..
00:18:00 But did someone send you? -Oh, no!
00:21:20 Taking that handkerchief. You want to be sent away?
00:24:33 Neither, Father. I, um, write. As I explained to miss Tina.
00:28:56 They want to take my house away. But they can't.
00:31:51 Give it to Father Rinaldo. He'll know what it's for.
00:38:03 Father told me he saw you. I can imagine how unpleasant it must've been.
00:41:14 Perhaps there's too much clay. -Yes, but why just here, signore?
00:43:12 And there couldn't have been any music.
00:45:18 It was the painting of Jeffrey Ashton, wasn't it?
00:47:49 Strange, but don't you feel~ -Get out, Charles.
00:50:54 She's gone. -Mr. Burton, give me my ring.
00:53:31 I feel sometimes that she's taken him away from me.
00:56:10 Did you bring the Bone China cups? -Yes.
01:04:50 Someone was in my aunt's room. -Yes...
01:08:05 I sometimes have a tendency to form snap judgements.
01:10:42 It would be a great pleasure if you'd have dinner with me tonight.
01:14:52 Would you?
01:19:17 You know what I used to think? -No.
01:24:46 Jeffrey is dead, Tina! Dead for both of us.