Home Sweet Home (1917 film)

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Home Sweet Home
Directed by Wilfred Noy
Written by Reuben Gillmer
Production
company
Clarendon
Distributed byHarma Photoplays
Release date
  • March 1917 (1917-03)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Home Sweet Home is a 1917 British silent film directed by Wilfred Noy. [1]

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Plot

Safety Mulraney (Otway), a down-on-her luck cooper, receives the world's largest barrel order from Russian brewer Itrivvik Macedonia (Haynes). However, Lenin (Canning) has ill intentions.

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  1. Low p.199

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