• Film ID:
  • 13724
  • Availability:
  • DVD Available from Shop
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • DVD=83 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • America.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • English.
THE GREAT MOMENT (1944)
Cast
Joel Mccrea. Betty Field. Harry Carey. William Demarest. Louis Jean Heydt.
Director(s)
Preston Sturges.
Categories
Comedy. Drama. Medical. 19th Century. Historical.
Review
In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost (William Demarest) goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to "Dr. W.T.G. Morton, the Benefactor of Mankind, with the Gratitude of Humanity". A supposed historical drama about the inventor of anaesthesia. But the screwball impulse is always hovering on the edge of the frame.
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