The Flying Torpedo (1916)
50 min
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
- March 12, 1916
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- John Emerson as Winthrop Clavering
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Bartholomew Thompson
- W.E. Lawrence as William Haverman
- Fred J. Butler as Chief of International Crooks
- Raymond Wells as Accomplice
- Lucille Young as Accomplice
- Erich von Stroheim as Accomplice
- Viola Barry as Adelaide E. Thompson
- Bessie Love as Hulda
- Ralph Lewis as Head of the Board
Crew
- John B. O'Brien · Director
- Christy Cabanne · Director
- Robert M. Baker · Writer
- John Emerson · Writer
- D.W. Griffith · Writer
- D.W. Griffith · Producer
- George W. Hill · Cinematographer