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Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
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Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
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Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Home, Sweet Home is a 1914 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 inspires several others in their own times of need.