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Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!

The Great Moment

5.919441h 23mNR
ComedyDrama

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.

Directed by Preston Sturges

CAST

The people behind the story

Joel McCrea
Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
Betty Field
Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
William Demarest
William DemarestEben Frost
Louis Jean Heydt
Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
Edwin Maxwell
Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
Porter Hall
Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce

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