

The Great Moment
Visit website5.8/10 • 19
1944-07-18 • 1h 23m
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.
- Directors
- Preston Sturges
- Writters
- René Fülöp-Miller
- Editors
- René Fülöp-Miller, Stuart Gilmore

The Great Moment
Visit website1944-07-18 • 1h 23m
5.8/10 • 19
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.
- Directors
- Preston Sturges
- Writters
- René Fülöp-Miller
- Editors
- René Fülöp-Miller, Stuart Gilmore
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsJoel 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
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- Keywords
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