Moment to Moment

For avid fans of Alfred Hitchcock's style of suspense, MOMENT TO MOMENT will fill the bill nicely--especially since it's lavishly photographed among some beautiful French Riviera surroundings and extremely well played by JEAN SEBERG (at her most radiant) and has HONOR BLACKMAN in an enjoyably campy role as her best friend and neighbor.

Seems that Jean is a bored housewife who drifts into a tender affair with a hunky sailor (SEAN GARRISON, whose career seemed to go nowhere except to TV roles), and when she kills him during an explosive argument she gets help from her neighbor to bury the body in a nearby ravine. From then on, it's a cat-and-mouse game with the French authorities that keeps the audience guessing right up until the finale.

Under Mervyn LeRoy's direction, this is a little slow-moving when it should have been more taut with suspense. Still, it's so attractively filmed and performed, and accompanied by an attractive Henry Mancini score, that it's recommended viewing for any fan of this sort of suspenseful romance.

I have been searching for this movie for years! I saw it when I was in college and have never seen it since. I am so happy to finally locate it and now I would like to purchase the video, if available. If anyone knows where to obtain it, please put it on this site and I will order it. Anyway, this movie is a real tear jerker - I remember sobbing at the end; course I was young and impressionable then. But seriously, for anyone who loves a tragic love story, this is it!! In general I don't remember too many movies but this one has literally haunted me for over 25 years! I even had the sheet music and used to play the theme on the piano. Thanks IMDb for having the information!

Second viewing after a 50 year gap. Still love it as a Hitchcock-like thriller. A film to remember for Jean Seberg's screen presence. And whatever happened to that handsome actor, Sean Garrison--he carried the film with his presence. Henry Mancini's score was lovely, too. And Honor Blackman is wonderful, too. The only unbelievable part of the film--that a school kid cannot recall a face he saw a few days ago. A great thriller--little else.

I too have loved this movie ever since I saw it.

The difference is that I fell in love with the scenery and THe old French style House and of course the music .

Will be purchasing it but am waiting for a DVD version if that will ever happen. The acting is phenomenal.

The scene at the fountain has stayed with me for a long time . I too was a teenager when I first saw it. The cinematography was so great in the beginning scene. The intensity is felt and you feel like your right there with them.

And the actor is so handsome.

What an incredible theme song this lovely picture has. Henry Mancini, along with other major composers, wrote some of the best movie themes during this era (50s & 60s). Also, during that era, songs that went on to get nominated for Oscars were first rate - unlike today's non-descript dreck.

"Moment to Moment" is a lovely movie. I loved the scene at the café when the white doves flew up into the sun (turning golden) to say "goodbye to the day." That glorious theme music crept in all through the picture, making the mood extra special.

I recently bought a Mancini CD just to get the theme from this film. Jean Seberg was a beautiful actress with perfect looks which matched the astonishingly handsome, Sean Garrison, playing the man she cheats with and believes she's killed.

I could see Lana Turner playing this role, it was her kind of picture, but Seberg was just fine. I'm just disappointed that I can't have this on DVD with possible "extras" of outtakes, interviews, etc., especially with Mancini who created this impassioned music. The music theme set the entire mood for the movie and that theme is available on Henry Mancini's A Legendary Performer CD. I just love it.