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The Great Moment

The Great Moment

Preston Sturges

1944

  • Comedy
  • Drama
5.9

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 & crew

  • Preston SturgesDirector
  • Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green Morton
  • Betty FieldElizabeth Morton
  • Harry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
  • William DemarestEben Frost
  • Louis Jean HeydtDr. Horace Wells
  • Julius TannenDr. Charles T. Jackson
  • Edwin MaxwellVice-President of Medical Society
  • Porter HallPresident Franklin Pierce

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