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The Great Moment

Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
Jul 18, 1944 · 1h 23m
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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.

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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
Directed by Preston Sturges

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
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Production
Paramount Pictures
Country
US

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