The Greatest Question (1919) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

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.