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Home, Sweet Home (1914)

Home, Sweet Home (1914)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1914, May 16
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: Reliance Film Company, Majestic Motion Picture Company
Cast: Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Courtenay Foote, Owen Moore, Fred Burns, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Dorothy Gish, Walter Long, Blanche Sweet

Overview:

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.