My Own United States
Cast & Crew
John W. Noble
Arnold Daly
Charles E. Graham
Duncan Mcrae
Sidney Bracey
P. R. Scammon
Film Details
Synopsis
Philip Nolan, IV, at first refuses to enlist during World War I, but he is deeply moved when his father explains the part played by the Nolan family in American history: After Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, Lieutenant Philip Nolan aids Burr in his plan to form a government hostile to the United States in the South. Nolan is arrested for treason on the morning after his marriage to Agnes Churchill and later sentenced to life aboard the U.S. frigate Constitution . Forbidden to hear or read anything concerning his native land, he becomes known as the "man without a country." Nolan is never informed of the birth of his son, Philip, Jr., who grows into a patriotic young man and defends the Union cause during the Civil War. Philip, IV, grateful to have a country to defend, proudly dons an American uniform.
Director
John W. Noble
Cast
Arnold Daly
Charles E. Graham
Duncan Mcrae
Sidney Bracey
P. R. Scammon
Thomas Donnelly
James Levering
Edward Dunn
Claude Cooper
William V. Miller
Frederick Truesdell
F. C. Earle
Jack Hamilton
Richard Wangeman
Frederick Herzog
Frank Murray
Gerald Day
Jack Burns
Anna Lehr
Marie Du Chette
Helen Mulholland
Mrs. Allen Walker
Mary Kennevan Carr
"baby" Carr
J. A. Furey
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Reviewers state that the ship scenes were filmed on the U.S. frigate Constitution and that the Hamilton-Burr duel was filmed on the site where it actually occurred. Although not credited in the film, the picture was based on the short story by Edward Everett Hale entitled "The Man Without a Country," which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, December 1863. There was a pre-release screening in New York on January 17, 1918. The film was planned as a state rights release before Metro purchased it. At the New York premiere on April 7, 1918, Arnold Daly appeared as a "four-minute man." A review mentioned that thanks were extended by the author to the New York Historical Society.
