The Flying Torpedo (1916)
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans. This film is now considered lost.
- Date of release
- 1916-03-12
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- War, Drama, Science Fiction
- Director
- Christy Cabanne, John B. O'Brien
Casting
- John Emerson — Winthrop Clavering
- Bessie Love — Hulda
- Spottiswoode Aitken — Bartholomew Thompson
- W.E. Lawrence — William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
- Fred J. Butler — Chief of International Crooks
- Raymond Wells — Accomplice
- Lucille Young — Accomplice
- Erich von Stroheim — Accomplice
- Viola Barry — Adelaide E. Thompson
- Ralph Lewis — Head of the Board
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