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The Greatest Question (1919)

The Greatest Question (1919)

Drama
Release Date: 1919, December 27
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: First National Pictures, First National Pictures
Cast: Eugenie Besserer, Lillian Gish, Ralph Graves, Robert Harron, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett

Overview:

Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as Nellie is known, returns to the area as an orphan. Locals Mr. and Mrs. Hilton, though poverty stricken, take her into their family. Fully integrated with the loving Hiltons, she wishes to relieve them of their financial strain. Nellie travels to a nearby farmhouse to gain employment from depraved Martin Cain and his paranoid wife.