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The Flying Torpedo(1916)
Status: Released
Date: 1916-03-12
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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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United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Fine Arts Film Company
Movie: The Flying Torpedo
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John Emerson
Winthrop Clavering
Bessie Love
Hulda
Spottiswoode Aitken
Bartholomew Thompson
W.E. Lawrence
William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)
Lucille Young
Accomplice
Erich von Stroheim
Accomplice
Ralph Lewis
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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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1916-03-12
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