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1944

The Great Moment

Directed by Preston Sturges
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.

Duration

1h 23m

Released

July 18, 1944

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5.8

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Cast22

  • Joel McCrea
  • Betty Field
  • Harry Carey
  • William Demarest
  • Louis Jean Heydt
  • Julius Tannen
  • Edwin Maxwell
  • Porter Hall
  • Franklin Pangborn

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