If My Country Should Call (1916)
- Directed by
- Joe De Grasse
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film is about American men deciding to enlist for military service during World War I and conflict with Mexico. It follows characters dealing with the personal consequences of that choice.
patrioticmelodramaticsomberurgenthistoricalsentimentaldatedfragmentary
What happens
If My Country Should Call is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and starring Lon Chaney, Jack Nelson and Dorothy Phillips. The film was written by Ida May Park, based on a story by Virginia Terhune Van de Water. The film's theme was very topical at the time, since many American men were then signing up to fight in World War I and Mexico. The film survives incomplete at the Library of Congress and the National Archives of Canada/Ottawa. Only reels 2, 3 and 5 survive of the five original reels. The incomplete print, along with an incomplete print of another 1916 Chaney film, The Place Beyond the Winds were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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