The Great Moment (1921 film)
The Great Moment is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Milton Sills.
The film is now considered lost though a fragment exists and is preserved at the BFI National Archive.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Lost in a Harem
Lost in a Harem is a 1944 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
Eagles Over London
Eagles Over London, is a 1969" macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
Crime Over London
Crime Over London is a 1936 British crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanagh and David Burns.
It was made at Isleworth Studios, based on the novel" House of a Thousand Windows" by Ludwig von Wohl.
The film's sets were designed by art director Edward Carrick.
Gambler's Choice
Gambler's Choice is a 1944 film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly.
The Great Moment (1944 film)
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.
Although rarely seen today, the film is worth viewing for its flashback structure – comparable in some ways to" Citizen Kane", which was influenced by the earlier film" The Power and the Glory", 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.
In 2003 a medical- dental historian in a lengthy analysis of the movie and its history -- which cited its flashback structure, timeless subject, injections of humor, and" un- Pasteur- like" treatment of its protagonist, while adhering reasonably well to the historical record -- concluded that" The Great Moment may now be due for a general reevaluation by movie historians and critics who, like most folks, have never felt much affection for dentists past and present."
Alfred Zeisler
Alfred Zeisler( September 26, 1892 – March 1, 1985) was an American- born German film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.
He produced 29 films between 1927 and 1936.
He also directed 16 films between 1924 and 1949.
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges( born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
In 1941, he won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film" The Great McGinty", his first of three nominations in the category.
Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations.
It is not uncommon for a Sturges character to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene.
Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood( such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate.
Sturges famously sold the story for" The Great McGinty" to Paramount Pictures for$ 1, in return for being allowed to direct the film.

Question: Do both films The Great Moment (1944 Film) and Crime Over London have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes