Home, Sweet Home

1914 · biography · drama · H.E. Aitken, D.W. Griffith · Majestic Motion Picture Company

John Howard Payne (Henry B. W. Walthall) leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart (Lillian Gish), 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.