Home, Sweet Home

1914 · Directed by D. W. Griffith · 55 min · drama film, silent film, biographical film

★ 5.0/10 · 15 ratings on TMDB

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