Home, Sweet Home | |
Director: | D. W. Griffith |
Starring: | Earle Foxe Henry Walthall Dorothy Gish Lillian Gish |
Cinematography: | G. W. Bitzer |
Editing: | James Smith Rose Smith |
Distributor: | Mutual Film |
Runtime: | 55 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent English intertitles |
Home, Sweet Home (1914) is an 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 provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.