The Great Moment (1944)
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
83 min
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.
- Release date
- July 18, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
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 Professor 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
Crew
- Preston Sturges · Director
- René Fülöp-Miller · Writer
- Preston Sturges · Writer
- Victor Young · Composer
- Victor Milner · Cinematographer
- Stuart Gilmore · Editor