The Great Moment
19 reviews
Comedy/Drama
1h 23m
1944
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...
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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.
- DirectorPreston Sturges
- Release18 July 1944
- Genre
- Duration1h 23m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate19 reviews
- Productions
Paramount Pictures
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

Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman

Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer

Victor Potel
First Dental Patient

Thurston Hall
Senator Borland

J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest

Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)

Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)

Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
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