The Lost Moment

Based on Henry James's novel The Aspern Papers, this was adapted by a radio scribe and directed by a radio actor so there is lots of dialog and not that much visual excitement. Cummings is an American publisher who is told of the existence of a cache of love letters in Venice that were written by a missing poet. This intrigues Cummings, so he goes to Venice under another name and meets the recipient of the love letters, Moorehead (as a 105-year-old woman, in a triumph of makeup), and her niece, Hayward. Cummings finds Hayward attractive (who wouldn't?), but she shows him little more than disdain. The old house is creaky and frightening and Cummings stays on,...