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The Great Moment

The Great Moment (Australia)
Great without Glory (USA)
Immortal Secret (USA)
Morton the Magnificent (USA)
Triumph over Pain (USA)

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Release:
1944 July, 18
Country:
USA
Runtime:
83 minutes
Genre:
Biography / Comedy / Drama
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In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost 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." Frost drives to a country farmhouse and gives the medal to Morton's widow, Elizabeth Morton who explains to her daughter, Betty, that Frost was the first person given anesthesia by her father, Boston dentist Dr. W.T.G. Morton. The story flashes back 20 years to find Morton being wildly acclaimed by medical students as the man whose discovery of "letheon" had forever ended pain as, before that day, even amputations were performed with the patient fully conscious. "Letheron", unknown to everybody but Morton and Elizabeth, is simply highly rectified sulfuric ether - cleaning fluid - easily obtainable at a pharmacy. By keeping the secret, Dr. Morton could be rich, but he had rather be poor than see a girl strapped to an operating table under the knife of Dr. Warren, and he reveals his secret to a group of surgeons in the hospital operating theatre. With his secret out, and all hope of personal reward gone, with the possible exception of proceeds from his glass inhaler, he gets the news that Congress has voted him a reward of $100,000, and also learns that the patent on his inhaler has been infringed. President Pierce, under pressure from newspapers inflamed by jealous medical rivals of Morton, refuses to sign the bill until Morton has proven patient infringement. - IMDb

El Gran momento Spain
El Gran momento Uruguay
The Great Moment Australia
The Great Moment Canada
The Great Moment United Kingdom
The Great Moment USA
Great without Glory USA
Immortal Secret USA
Morton the Magnificent USA
O Grande Momento Portugal
Seger över smärtan Sweden
Triumph over Pain USA
Triunfo Sin Gloria Argentina
Triunfo sin gloria Mexico
Triunfo sin gloria (original subtitled version) Uruguay
Triunfo Sobre a Dor Brazil
Unutulmaz günler Turkey
Великий момент Soviet Union
偉大なる瞬間 Japan

Children's Cast:

Billy Sheffield [8] Morton's Son
Janet Chapman [12] Morton's Daughter

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