Your rating
Play trailer
56
TMDB
21
-
V&R
0
Favorites
Watchlist
The Great Moment
1944, Jul 18
1h 23m
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
Written by
René Fülöp-Miller
Joel McCrea
William Thomas Green Morton
Hank Worden
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
Betty Field
Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
Professor John C. Warren
Porter Hall
President Franklin Pierce
Byron Foulger
Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
William Demarest
Eben Frost
Arthur Hoyt
Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Priest
Thurston Hall
Senator Borland
Torben Meyer
Dr. Dahlmeyer
Roscoe Ates
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
Vice-President of Medical Society
Franklyn Farnum
Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Onlooker (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Homer Quimby
Harry Hayden
Judge Shipman
Franklin Pangborn
Dr. Heywood
Louis Jean Heydt
Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Victor Potel
First Dental Patient
Donivee Lee
Betty Morton
0