The Great Problem

1916 film directed by Rex Ingram
  • Violet Mersereau
  • Dan Hanlon
  • Lionel Adams
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 17, 1916 (1916-04-17)
CountryUnited StatesLanguages
  • Silent
  • English intertitles

The Great Problem is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon and Lionel Adams.[1] It marked Ingram's directorial debut of a feature film, having previously made a short. It was shot at Fort Lee in New Jersey. A complete copy of the film is held by the Museum of Modern Art.[2][3]

Cast

  • Violet Mersereau as Peggy Carson
  • Dan Hanlon as Bill Carson
  • Lionel Adams as George Devereaux
  • Kittens Reichert as Peggy - as a child
  • William J. Dyer as Skinny McGee
  • Mathilde Brundage as Mrs. Devereaux
  • Howard Crampton as Joseph

References

  1. ^ Gmür p.261
  2. ^ "The Great Problem". American Silent Feature Film Database. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  3. ^ Great Problem, The, International Federation of Film Archives, Brussels.

Bibliography

  • Leonhard Gmür. Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen. 2013.

External links

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