Directed by Martin Gabel
based off a Henry James Short Story
which is in turn based The actual incident involved a cache of love and private letters of by Lord Byron.
Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder)is a publisher who is trying to find a trove of love letters that were supposedly written by one of early 19th Century great romantic poets, Jeffrey Aspern. - a sudo Lord Byron
He ends up in Venice, where he enters the house of Aspern's still living lover over 100 years old (Agnes Moorehead) and her niece (Susan Hayward),where these famous letters are kept hidden away ,
as a lodger He succeeds better than he expects, because the letters do exist - but to get to them he has to be nicer and nicer to the niece who is a hard cold woman.During the Night there are noises of haunting piano scales echoing over the flowing streets of Venice, there are things seen that should never been seen or heard of long buried in this Gothic drama
that brings the dead and the living together,
its really worth a look
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039583/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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