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 · PASSED
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Preston Sturges
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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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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