The Great Moment

The Great Moment

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

1944-07-18 83 min ★ 5.9
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.

Cast

Roscoe Ates
Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea
William Thomas Green Morton
Harry Carey
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
Edwin Maxwell
Edwin Maxwell
Vice-President of Medical Society
Hank Bell
Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Louis Jean Heydt
Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
Julius Tannen
Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Thurston Hall
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest
Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
Betty Field
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
Grady Sutton
Grady Sutton
Homer Quimby
Franklyn Farnum
Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient
William Demarest
William Demarest
Eben Frost
Porter Hall
Porter Hall
President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pangborn
Franklin Pangborn
Dr. Heywood
Harry Hayden
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
Torben Meyer
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer