The Lost Moment (1947)

No. 109 Starring Robert Cummings; Susan Hayward; and an unrecognizable Agnes Moorhead under many layers of ancient-lady makeup. This goth melodrama romance features the plot of a really really slow heist -- who will get the letters? Where are the letters? Offbeat but kind of enjoyable. At one point I thought, this movie has to end in fire, right? And ... spoiler: it does, but not quite in the usual way. It's based on a Henry James novella. A lot of the gothic tropes are not used or explored in the expected ways ... which I found interesting. But overall the extreme melodrama was laughable at times.