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6 September 1944 (USA)
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In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to "Dr...
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Far from great
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Joel McCrea | ... | William Thomas Green Morton | |
| Betty Field | ... | Elizabeth Morton | |
| Harry Carey | ... | Prof. Warren | |
| William Demarest | ... | Eben Frost | |
| Louis Jean Heydt | ... | Dr. Horace Wells | |
| Julius Tannen | ... | Dr. Charles Jackson (as Julian Tannen) | |
| Edwin Maxwell | ... | Vice-President of Medical Society | |
| Porter Hall | ... | President Franklin Pierce | |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Dr. Heywood | |
| Grady Sutton | ... | Homer Quimby | |
| Donivee Lee | ... | Betty Morton | |
| Harry Hayden | ... | Judge Shipman | |
| Torben Meyer | ... | Dr. Dahlmeyer | |
| Victor Potel | ... | First Dental Patient (as Vic Potel) | |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Senator Borland |
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83 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:Approved (PCA #8352) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) |
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Originally a much more serious film. After picking up some confused reviews Paramount insisted that it be recut.
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Eben Frost:
It was the night of September 30th. I was in excruciating pain.
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Decidedly odd, you might think, coming from Preston Sturges but then again, perhaps not as the idiosyncratic Sturges seldom stuck to 'conventional' genre pictures; even his screw-ball comedies were more perverse than what was the norm in Hollywood at the time, so this biopic of the man who discovered anesthesia for use in the dental profession is a far cry from the usual Hollywood biopic, (even the subject is obscure and unlikely). Not, of course, is it necessarily any better for that. It's a slight, disingenuous little picture veering uneasily from drama to comedy without making much of an inroad either way.
Joel McCrea, (blander than usual), is the crusading dentist, (sic), and Betty Field, the wife who eggs him on. Some of the Sturges stock company pop up in sundry supporting parts, (noticeably William Demarest), but none make much of an impression. They, like the film, remain largely inoffensive. Not a failure, precisely, but a blip nevertheless.