The Great Problem

{{short description|1916 film directed by Rex Ingram}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Great Problem | image = The Great Problem.jpg | caption = | director = Rex Ingram | producer = Rex Ingram | writer = Rex Ingram | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Violet Mersereau|Dan Hanlon|Lionel Adams}} | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1916|4|17}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = {{ubl|Silent|English intertitles}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Great Problem''''' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon and Lionel Adams.<ref>Gmür p.261</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Great Problem |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2845/default.html |website=American Silent Feature Film Database |access-date=28 April 2022}}</ref><ref>Great Problem, The, International Federation of Film Archives, Brussels.</ref>

==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== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Leonhard Gmür. ''Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen''. 2013.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0006740}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Great Problem}} Category:1916 films Category:1916 drama films Category:1916 American films Category:1916 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films directed by Rex Ingram Category:Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey Category:American silent drama films Category:Surviving American silent films Category:Universal Pictures films