The Great Moment

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

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