The Lost Moment is a 1947 American melodramatic psychological thriller film with elements of horror directed by Martin Gabel and starring Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead.

[3][4] 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.

[5] A publisher, 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 also learns that Tina has dissociative identity disorder; at times believing that she is Juliana and the object of Ashton's love letters.

This leads to the climatic scene where we discover the fate of Ashton, and the aged Juliana accidentally sets the house on fire.

The film was produced at Universal Pictures by Walter Wanger, from a screenplay by Leonardo Bercovici based on the 1888 novella The Aspern Papers by Henry James.

(In fact no money changed hands - Wanger bought the script in exchange for a scenario called The Washington Flyer.

Time Out said that the film is a "remarkably effective adaptation of Henry James' The Aspern Papers, closer to the shivery ambience of The Innocents than to the oh-so-discreet charm of Daisy Miller or The Europeans.