- HD 1080
- Runtime: 83m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Preston Sturges
- Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
- keywords: boston, massachusetts, biography, dentist
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!
- The The Great Moment is featured in the top rankings of 1944
- #36 in Top Comedy Movies of 1944
- #57 in Top Drama Movies of 1944
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.