- In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realization that the country is basically defenseless, 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.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- An eccentric novelist reads of the offer of a defense board for new weapons of defense and backs his closest friend, an inventor, in the development of a torpedo that can be controlled by wireless. War clouds hover over the country and a band of international crooks is active in its efforts to obtain possession of the model. The crooks are finally successful after murdering the inventor by the ingenious use of asphyxiating gas. But the novelist is determined to go on with the invention. He advances money to the dead man's assistant and sets about using the methods he has described in his popular detective stories to run down the band. Aided by a Swedish servant, who is a keen admirer of his stories, the author is successful in locating the model. Before he can take it away, however, he is discovered and made prisoner. When he does not return the servant girl gives the alarm and the police rescue him and bundle the crooks off to jail. By this time a foreign invader has landed in California, become strongly entrenched and defeats the United States forces on land and sea. The coast cities are in peril and the model flying torpedo is seized upon as a last hope. Many duplicates are made and send to the beleaguered defenders. Then the tide changes. By wireless control and range finders the torpedoes are sent on their unerring way and the works of the foreign foe are demolished. The rout is complete.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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