The Flying Torpedo

March. 12,1916      
Rating:
4.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

John Emerson as  Winthrop Clavering
Bessie Love as  Hulda
Spottiswoode Aitken as  Bartholomew Thompson
W.E. Lawrence as  William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
Lucille Young as  Accomplice
Erich von Stroheim as  Accomplice
Ralph Lewis as  Head of the Board

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