The Lost Moment.
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✎ Suggest a correctionA drama about a young schizophrenic who imagines that she is living in another age and enacting the youthful love story of her aged aunt. Setting, Venice, in the late 19th century.
The movie mirrors some details of its source material and the broad outline of its plot, but it radically alters the characters, adding schizophrenia, a murder, and a fire. Lewis Venable travels from New York to Venice, seeking to buy the 19th-century love letters of the late poet Jeffrey Ashton to a woman named Juliana Bordereau. He learns from a living poet, Charles Russell, that Juliana is still alive at 105.
The movie mirrors some details of its source material and the broad outline of its plot, but it radically alters the characters, adding schizophrenia, a murder, and a fire. Lewis Venable travels from New York to Venice, seeking to buy the 19th-century love letters of the late poet Jeffrey Ashton to a woman named Juliana Bordereau. He learns from a living poet, Charles Russell, that Juliana is still alive at 105.
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31Oct47 L1913, renewed 25Apr75 R606039 Renewal claimant: National Telefilm Associates, Inc Original author: Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc. & Universal Pictures Company, Inc © Universal Pictures Co., Inc., and Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc.; 31Oct47; LP1913.
Complete catalog record
THE LOST MOMENT. Waller Wanger Pictures, Inc. Released by Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., c1947. 89 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on "The Aspern Papers," by Henry James. Summary: A drama about a young schizophrenic who imagines that she is living in another age and enacting the youthful love story of her aged aunt. Setting, Venice, in the late 19th century. Credits: Producer, Walter Wanger, director, Martin Gabel; screenplay, Leonardo Bercovici; orchestrations, David Tamkin; music, Daniele Amfitheatrof; film editor, Milton Carruth. Cast: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc., and Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc.; 31Oct47; LP1913.
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