The Greatest Question

Year: 1919

Runtime: 80 mins

Director: D.W. Griffith

Drama

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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