The Flying Torpedo Trailer

The Flying Torpedo Trailer (1916)

12 March 1916 Drama, Sci-Fi, War 50 mins

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

John Emerson

as Winthrop Clavering

Bessie Love

as Hulda

Spottiswoode Aitken

as Bartholomew Thompson

W.E. Lawrence

as William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)

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

Ralph Lewis

as Head of the Board

International Releases Dates

United States 12 March 1916

Production Companies

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