The Great Moment
Film194483 min5.9/10 on TMDB
Directed by Preston Sturges
Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
The story
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
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
Franklin PangbornDr. Heywood
Grady SuttonHomer QuimbyDonivee Lee
Donivee LeeBetty Morton
Harry HaydenJudge ShipmanExplore the crew
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Screenplay
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- René Fülöp-Miller
- Original Music Composer
- Victor Young
- Editor
- Stuart Gilmore
- Director of Photography
- Victor Milner