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Life's Greatest Problem

19181h NRMovieWarComedyDrama

Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives forever changed.

DirectorJ. Stuart Blackton
WriterAnthony Paul Kelly

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Cast · Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

MLMitchell Lewis
Mitchell Lewis
Big Steve Reardon
RRRubye De Remer
Rubye De Remer
Alice Webster
IDIda Darling
Ida Darling
Mrs. Craig
HFHelen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson
Miriam Craig
ESEugene Strong
Eugene Strong
Dick Craig
SDSidney D'Albrook
Sidney D'Albrook
An Agitator
GA
Gus Alexander
Little Lefty
JW
John P. Wade
John Craig
JGJohn Goldsworthy
John Goldsworthy
Frank Craig (as John H. Goldsworthy)
JM
John W. Martin
Shipyard Superintendent
BR
Bernard Randall
Craig's Secretary
AB
Aubrey Beattie
Wilkins

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Life's Greatest Problem hasn't started streaming in Australia yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around December 22, 1918. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.