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The Great Moment

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

NR Comedy Drama

Starring: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt

Writer: Preston Sturges, René Fülöp-Miller

Release Date:
July 18, 1944
Ratings:
5.6 / 10
Director:
Preston Sturges
Companies:
Paramount Pictures

Overview

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.