ComedyDrama
The Great Moment
"Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!"
User Score21 votes
56%5.6/10
Release1944→
Runtime1H 23M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media9
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Director
Preston Sturges
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Certification
NRKeywords
boston, massachusettsbiographydentist
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Countries:United States of America
Production:Paramount Pictures