THE GREAT MOMENT (1944)
PRESTON STURGES
Plot
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.