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The Great Problem
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Rex Ingram

Cast: Violet Mersereau [Mary Carson; and Peggy Carson], Dan Hanlon [Bill Carson], Lionel Adams [George Devereaux], Kittens Reicherts [Peggy Carson, as a child], William J. Dyer [Skinny McGee], Mrs. J.J. Brundage [Mrs. Devereaux], Howard Crampton [Joseph], [?] Louis Stern [James Carlton]?, [?] Nellie Slattery [the housekeeper]?

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Rex Ingram. / © 27 March 1916 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP7932]. Released 17 April 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Ingram’s first film as director.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Reformers - Prisons

Listing updated: 8 September 2014.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-AFI.