The Flying Torpedo

Mar 12, 1916

0h 50m

★ 0.0

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.

Genres

War

Drama

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Fine Arts Film Company

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Cast

Winthrop Clavering

John Emerson

Hulda

Bessie Love

Bartholomew Thompson

Spottiswoode Aitken

William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)

W.E. Lawrence

Chief of International Crooks

Fred J. Butler

Accomplice

Raymond Wells

Accomplice

Lucille Young

Accomplice

Erich von Stroheim

Adelaide E. Thompson

Viola Barry

Head of the Board

Ralph Lewis

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.

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