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The Great Moment

1944
Directed byPreston Sturges
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.

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Joel McCreaWilliam Thomas Green MortonBetty FieldElizabeth MortonHarry CareyProfessor John C. Warren
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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 Quimby
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ComedyDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
5.6

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