The Great Moment (1944)
1h 23min
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Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
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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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Directed by: Preston Sturges, Victor Milner
Written by: René Fülöp-Miller
Produced by: Buddy G. DeSylva
Composed by: Victor Young
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
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