My Country First (1916)
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.
- Date of release
- 1916-06-05
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tom Terriss
Casting
- 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
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