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The Flying Torpedo
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WarDramaScience Fiction
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.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
50 min
Release Date
1916-03-12
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
John Emerson
Winthrop Clavering
Bessie Love
Hulda
Spottiswoode Aitken
Bartholomew Thompson
W.E. Lawrence
William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
Fred J. Butler
Chief of International Crooks
Raymond Wells
Accomplice
Lucille Young
Accomplice
Erich von Stroheim
Accomplice
Viola Barry
Adelaide E. Thompson
Ralph Lewis
Head of the Board
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