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.
Joel McCrea
as William Thomas Green Morton
Betty Field
as Elizabeth Morton
Harry Carey
as Professor John C. Warren
William Demarest
as Eben Frost
Louis Jean Heydt
as Dr. Horace Wells
Julius Tannen
as Dr. Charles T. Jackson
Edwin Maxwell
as Vice-President of Medical Society
Porter Hall
as President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pangborn
as Dr. Heywood
Grady Sutton
as Homer Quimby
Donivee Lee
as Betty Morton
Harry Hayden
as Judge Shipman
