The Flying Torpedo

Overview

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.

Release Date

12 March 1916

50 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Winthrop Clavering
Bartholomew Thompson
William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
Chief of International Crooks
Accomplice
Accomplice
Adelaide E. Thompson
Head of the Board