The Flying Torpedo
3.7
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.
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Cast
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John Emerson
Winthrop Clavering
Also in
The Grey Sentinel
The Failure
Bessie Love
Hulda
Known for
The Lost World
The Broadway Melody
Spottiswoode Aitken
Bartholomew Thompson
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
W.E. Lawrence
William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
Also in
Flirting with Fate
A Little Princess
Fred J. Butler
Chief of International Crooks
Also in
The Battling Fool
According to Hoyle
Raymond Wells
Accomplice
Also in
Souls Aflame
The Americano
Lucille Young
Accomplice
Also in
The False Road
Mutiny
Erich von Stroheim
Accomplice
Known for
Sunset Boulevard
Grand Illusion
Viola Barry
Adelaide E. Thompson
Also in
The Mothering Heart
A Frightful Blunder
Ralph Lewis
Head of the Board
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Christy Cabanne Director · John B. O'Brien Director
United States release March 12, 1916 · Produced in United States
Production
Fine Arts Film Company
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · March 12, 1916
Theatrical
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