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.
D.W. Griffith
Director, Writer
H.E. Aitken
Writer
Henry B. Walthall
John Howard Payne
Josephine Crowell
Payne's Mother
Lillian Gish
Payne's Sweetheart
Dorothy Gish
Sister of Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh
Apple Pie Mary Smith
Robert Harron
The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
Jack Pickford
The Mother's Son
Fay Tincher
The Worldly Woman
Spottiswoode Aitken
James Smith - Mary's Father
Northfork59%
The Shepherd68%
Skater Girl72%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
All Together Now67%
Cigarettes & Coffee66%
Donovan's Echo60%
Don't Come Knocking61%
The Secret Garden74%
It's a Wonderful Life82%
Monster High: Scaris City of Frights79%
Mansfield Park61%
Jonathan58%
Seeds of Yesterday64%
Eleanor the Great69%
Come Away58%
Benji69%
Where the Red Fern Grows69%
The Words66%
Too Late Blues63%
