My Country First

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.

Director: Tom Terriss

Casts

	Tom Terriss as Frank Draper / Morton
	Helene Ziegfeld as Helen Lowell
	Jack Hopkins as Dempsey
	Alfred Hemming as Florian
	Joseph Baker as Philip Thompson
	Joseph Sterling as Ferdinand Blanck
	Jill Woodward as Nana
	Harold Vosburgh as Anderson
	A.B. Thaw as Aviator

Crew