If My Country Should Call
| If My Country Should Call | |
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| Directed by | Joe De Grasse |
| Written by | Ida May Park (screenplay) Virginia Terhune Van de Water (story) |
| Produced by | Red Feather Photplays |
| Starring | Dorothy Phillips Lon Chaney Jack Nelson |
| Cinematography | King D. Gray |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 5 reels (50 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent with English intertitles |
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.