My Country First

Release Date: 1916-06-05

Overview: 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.

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Cast

Tom Terriss

as Frank Draper / Morton

Helene Ziegfeld

as Helen Lowell

Jack Hopkins

as Dempsey

Alfred Hemming

as Florian

Joseph Baker

as Philip Thompson