The Great Moment
1944, Film, 83 min, Biography, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
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.
Directed by Preston Sturges
Cast
- Joel McCrea as William Thomas Green Morton
- Betty Field as Elizabeth Morton
- Harry Carey as Professor John C. Warren
- William Demarest as Eben Frost
- Louis Jean Heydt as Dr. Horace Wells
- Julius Tannen as Professor Charles T. Jackson
- Edwin Maxwell as Vice-President of Medical Society
- Porter Hall as President Franklin Pierce
- Franklin Pangborn as Dr. Heywood
- Grady Sutton as Homer Quimby
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