The Flying Torpedo (1916)

The Flying Torpedo

1916

War Drama Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Christy Cabanne

John B. O'Brien

Cast

Bessie Love as Hulda

Erich von Stroheim as Accomplice

Fred J. Butler as Chief of International Crooks

John Emerson as Winthrop Clavering

Lucille Young as Accomplice

Ralph Lewis as Head of the Board

Raymond Wells as Accomplice