The Great Moment is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, and Milton Sills.

The film is now considered lost though a fragment exists and is preserved at the BFI National Archive.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Sir Edward Pelham (Francis), who has married a Russian Gypsy named Nada (Swanson), fears that his daughter Nadine (Swanson) will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin Eustace (Butler), whom she does not love.

During the journey she meets Bayard Delaval (Sills), a young engineer in her father's employ, and a warm friendship grows between them.

Nadine has reconciled with her father and has agrees to marry Howard Hopper (Hull), a millionaire who is a cad and the talk of Washington society.