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The Flying Torpedo

The Flying Torpedo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 12, 1916

Runtime

0h 50m

Genres

War, Drama, Science Fiction

Original Title

The Flying Torpedo

Production Companies

Fine Arts Film Company

Director

Christy Cabanne

Description

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.