Home, Sweet Home | |
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Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
Written by | Harry Aitken D. W. Griffith |
Starring | Earle Foxe Henry Walthall Dorothy Gish Lillian Gish |
Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
Edited by | James Smith Rose Smith |
Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Home, Sweet Home (1914) is an American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith.[1] It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall and Dorothy Gish.
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a dissolute life that leads to ruin and depression. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song, Home! Sweet Home! that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.