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The Greatest Question (1919) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1919 · 80 mins
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- Directed by
- D.W. Griffith
- Starring
- Lillian Gish, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Harron, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Ralph Graves
Nellie Jarvis, raised by itinerant parents, witnesses a couple murder a woman as a child. Years later, now an orphan known as “Little Miss Yes’m,” she returns to the area where the poor Mr. and Mrs. Hilton take her in. Determined to help the Hiltons, Nellie seeks work at a nearby farmhouse owned by the depraved Martin Cain and his paranoid wife.
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