The Great Moment

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

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.

Director: Preston Sturges

Cast

Joel McCrea

William Thomas Green Morton

Betty Field

Elizabeth Morton

Harry Carey

Professor John C. Warren

William Demarest

Eben Frost

Louis Jean Heydt

Dr. Horace Wells

Julius Tannen

Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Edwin Maxwell

Vice-President of Medical Society

Porter Hall

President Franklin Pierce