The Great Moment (1944)

Name: The Great Moment
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1944-07-18
Duration: 83 min
Cast: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt

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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Released 1944-07-18 · 83 min · Comedy, Drama

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 Dr. 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
Donivee Lee as Betty Morton
Harry Hayden as Judge Shipman
Torben Meyer as Dr. Dahlmeyer
Victor Potel as First Dental Patient
Thurston Hall as Senator Borland