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The Great Moment

1944, Movie, NR, 83 mins

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McCrea plays the Boston dentist who discovered an agent to take most of the pain out of extracting teeth--and other surgical operations--anesthesia (the name given it by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes). The film follows McCrea from young student forced to turn to dentistry because of the expense of medical school to his experiments with ether. His not always understanding wife, Field, and his human guinea pig, Demarest, support him through all his trials, and eventually he become... read more leave a comment
Year: 1944
Rated NR

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Cast
Joel McCrea: W.T.G. Morton
Betty Field: Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey: Prof. Warren
William Demarest: Eben Frost
Louis Jean Heydt: Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen: Dr. Jackson

 

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