The Great Moment
1944 · Preston Sturges · 83 min
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.
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Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
William DemarestEben Frost
Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce
Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
Grady SuttonHomer QuimbyDonivee LeeBetty Morton
Harry HaydenJudge Shipman
Torben MeyerDr. Dahlmeyer
Victor PotelFirst Dental Patient
Thurston HallSenator Borland
