The Great Moment
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
1944-07-18 | 83 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
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Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
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Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
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William DemarestEben Frost
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Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
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Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
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Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
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Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce
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Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
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Grady SuttonHomer Quimby
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Harry HaydenJudge Shipman
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Torben MeyerDr. Dahlmeyer
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Victor PotelFirst Dental Patient
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Thurston HallSenator Borland
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J. Farrell MacDonaldThe Priest
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Roscoe AtesMorton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
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Hank BellOnlooker (uncredited)
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Franklyn FarnumMassachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
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Byron FoulgerMorton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
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