The Great Moment
“Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!”
1944•NR•1h 23m•5.8•Released
ComedyDrama
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
Preston Sturges
Writer
Preston Sturges, René Fülöp-Miller
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Joel McCrea
William Thomas Green Morton
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
William Demarest
Eben Frost
Louis Jean Heydt
Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
Dr. Charles T. Jackson
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
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
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