The Great Moment (1944)
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
Starring Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Directed by Preston Sturges
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.
Runtime: 83 min.
Rating: 6.0
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: boston, massachusetts,biography,dentist
Cast
William Thomas Green Morton
Elizabeth Morton
Professor John C. Warren
Eben Frost
Dr. Horace Wells
Dr. Charles T. Jackson (as Julian Tannen)
Vice-President of Medical Society
President Franklin Pierce
Dr. Heywood