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.
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
