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Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas! - The Great Moment
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Title: The Great Moment

Release Date: 18 Jul 1944

Runtime: 1h 23m

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 5.8 (19 votes)

Cast

  • William Thomas Green Morton: Joel McCrea
  • Elizabeth Morton: Betty Field
  • Professor John C. Warren: Harry Carey
  • Eben Frost: William Demarest
  • Dr. Horace Wells: Louis Jean Heydt
  • Dr. Charles T. Jackson: Julius Tannen
  • Vice-President of Medical Society: Edwin Maxwell
  • President Franklin Pierce: Porter Hall
  • Dr. Heywood: Franklin Pangborn
  • Homer Quimby: Grady Sutton
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