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Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home is a 1914 American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall, and Dorothy Gish.

Plot

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.