The Great Moment

1944

The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges. Based on the book Triumph Over Pain (1940) by René Fülöp-Miller, it tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a 19th-century Boston dentist who discovered the use of ether for general anesthesia. The film stars Joel McCrea and Betty Field, and features Harry Carey, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn and Porter Hall.

The movie was filmed in 1942 but not released for over two years, and the released version differed from what Preston Sturges had wished, although he publicly accepted the film as his own. Paramount Pictures disliked the film Sturges had made, and pulled it from his control, re-titled and re-edited it, in the process making it (especially in the early segment) more confusing for the audience to understand. The studio's released version was marketed in a way that made it appear to be one of Sturges' comedies. The film was not well received by the critics or the public, and marked the end of a sustained run of success for Sturges, who had already left Paramount by the time the film was released.[1][2]

Although rarely seen today, the film is notable for its flashback structure – comparable in some ways to Citizen Kane, which was influenced by the earlier film The Power and the Glory (1933), for which Sturges wrote the screenplay – and for its irreverent and subtly satirical tone, unusual for a time when most Hollywood biopics were over-inflated and sentimental.[2]

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:1944
weitere Titel:
The Great Moment ast
偉大時刻zh-hant
伟大时刻zh-cn zh-hans zh
偉大なる瞬間 (1944年の映画)
Genre:Filmbiografie, Filmdrama
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:Englisch
Farbe:Schwarzweiß
Verleih:Paramount Pictures
Regie:Preston Sturges
Drehbuch:Preston Sturges
Kamera:Victor Milner
Musik:Victor Young
Produzent:Buddy DeSylva
Darsteller:Joel McCrea
Betty Field
Harry Carey senior
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