Fresh
Recut by the studio and generally considered to be a failure, it's nevertheless an oddly moving film that sticks obstinately and agreeably in the mind.
Derek Adams, Time Out
The Great Moment
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
1944 · 1h 23m · Approved
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Preston Sturges
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The Great Moment
Overview
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Director and cast
- Preston Sturges Director
- Joel McCrea as William Thomas Green Morton
- Betty Field as Elizabeth Morton
- Harry Carey as Professor John C. Warren
- William Demarest as Eben Frost
- Louis Jean Heydt as Dr. Horace Wells
- Julius Tannen as Dr. Charles T. Jackson (as Julian Tannen)
- Edwin Maxwell as Vice-President of Medical Society
- Porter Hall as President Franklin Pierce
- Franklin Pangborn as Dr. Heywood
- Grady Sutton Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Perhaps scientific inspiration is not conventionally reverenced in this film. But, at least, Mr. Sturges has triumphed over stiffness in screen biography.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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