# The Great Problem

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{{short description|1916 film directed by Rex Ingram}}
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| director = [Rex Ingram](/source/Rex_Ingram_(director))
| producer = Rex Ingram
| writer = Rex Ingram
| narrator = 
| starring = {{ubl|[Violet Mersereau](/source/Violet_Mersereau)|[Dan Hanlon](/source/Dan_Hanlon)|[Lionel Adams](/source/Lionel_Adams_(actor))}}
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| studio = [Universal Pictures](/source/Universal_Pictures)
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1916|4|17}}
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| country = United States
| language = {{ubl|Silent|English [intertitles](/source/intertitles)}}
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'''''The Great Problem''''' is a 1916 American [silent](/source/silent_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Rex Ingram](/source/Rex_Ingram_(director)) and starring [Violet Mersereau](/source/Violet_Mersereau), [Dan Hanlon](/source/Dan_Hanlon) and [Lionel Adams](/source/Lionel_Adams_(actor)).<ref>Gmür p.261</ref> It marked Ingram's directorial debut of a [feature film](/source/feature_film), having previously made a [short](/source/short_film). It was shot at [Fort Lee](/source/Fort_Lee%2C_New_Jersey) in [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey). A complete copy of the film is held by the [Museum of Modern Art](/source/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](/source/Violet_Mersereau) as Peggy Carson 
* [Dan Hanlon](/source/Dan_Hanlon) as Bill Carson 
* [Lionel Adams](/source/Lionel_Adams_(actor)) as George Devereaux 
* [Kittens Reichert](/source/Kittens_Reichert) as Peggy As A Child 
* [William J. Dyer](/source/William_J._Dyer) as "Skinny" McGee 
* [Mathilde Brundage](/source/Mathilde_Brundage) as Mrs. Devereaux 
* [Howard Crampton](/source/Howard_Crampton) as Joseph

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

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

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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

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