The Lost Moment (1947)

The Lost Moment (1947)

1947-11-21 United States of America 89 Min. PG-13
6.5 21 votes

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.

Cast

Robert Cummings is Lewis Venable
Lewis Venable
Susan Hayward is Tina Bordereau
Tina Bordereau
Agnes Moorehead is Juliana Borderau
Juliana Borderau
Joan Lorring is Amelia
Eduardo Ciannelli is Father Rinaldo
Father Rinaldo
John Archer is Charles Russell
Charles Russell
Frank Puglia is Pietro
William Edmunds is Vittorio