The Great Moment
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
Directed by Preston Sturges
Plot
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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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
Donivee Lee
Betty Morton
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland