Film

My Country First

1916 · Drama

Frank Draper, a patriotic young American, has invented the most wonderful explosive in the world which he intends giving to the United States. In defending a pure girl from the machinations of an enemy, he is involved in a serious crime which sends him, an innocent man, to prison. Angered at this interruption to their plans and desirous of obtaining the explosive for a foreign government, international spies connive successfully at Draper's escape. They then hold him a prisoner and the young patriot is given the choice of sacrificing his own life or that of his country. He chooses the preservation of the latter, and his sands of life have almost run out, when trapped and bound, he is rescued at the eleventh hour.

Tom Terriss

Frank Draper / Morton

Helene Ziegfeld

Helen Lowell

Jack Hopkins

Dempsey

Alfred Hemming

Florian

Joseph Baker

Philip Thompson

Joseph Sterling

Ferdinand Blanck

Jill Woodward

Nana

Harold Vosburgh

Anderson

A.B. Thaw

Aviator

• Tom TerrissDirector

Release date

June 5, 1916

Status

Released

Original language

English

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama