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

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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