John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Josephine Crowell, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
Crew: D.W. Griffith (Director), H.E. Aitken (Writer), D.W. Griffith (Writer), Billy Bitzer (Director of Photography), Joseph Carl Breil (Original Music Composer)
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Studio: Reliance Film Company, Majestic Motion Picture Company
Runtime: 55 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 16, 1914
IMDb: 5.7
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