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.
Directed byD.W. Griffith
Written byH.E. Aitken, D.W. Griffith
CountryUSA
Runtime55 min
On screen
Henry B. Walthall
Josephine Crowell
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gish