The Lost Moment
6.8
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.
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Cast
9 people
Robert Cummings
Lewis Venable
Known for
Dial M for Murder
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Susan Hayward
Tina Bordereau
Known for
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Agnes Moorehead
Juliana Borderau
Known for
Bewitched
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Joan Lorring
Amelia
Known for
The Verdict
Eduardo Ciannelli
Father Rinaldo
Known for
Boot Hill
Foreign Correspondent
John Archer
Charles Russell
Known for
Destination Moon
White Heat
Frank Puglia
Pietro
Known for
20 Million Miles to Earth
Jungle Book
Minerva Urecal
Maria
Known for
The Corpse Vanishes
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William Edmunds
Vittorio
Known for
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Martin Gabel Director · Leonardo Bercovici Screenplay Henry James Author
Worldwide gross $734K · Budget $1.3M · United States release November 21, 1947
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Budget
$1,313,775
Worldwide gross
$734,357
Gross vs. budget
0.6×
Production
Walter Wanger Productions
Production
Universal Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 21, 1947
Theatrical
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