The read
It runs a compact 55m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
15 audience votes
Key crew
- D.W. GriffithDirector
- Joseph Carl BreilOriginal Music Composer
- H.E. AitkenWriter
- D.W. GriffithWriter
Cast
- Henry B. WalthallJohn Howard Payne
- Josephine CrowellPayne's Mother
- Lillian GishPayne's Sweetheart
- Dorothy GishSister of Payne's Sweetheart
- Mae MarshApple Pie Mary Smith
- Robert HarronThe Eastener, Robert Winthrop
- Jack PickfordThe Mother's Son
- Fay TincherThe Worldly Woman
- Spottiswoode AitkenJames Smith - Mary's Father
- Miriam CooperThe Fiancee
- Mary AldenThe Mother
- Donald CrispThe Mother's Son