The Flying Torpedo is a 1916 American silent drama directed by John B. O'Brien and Christy Cabanne.

[1][2] In 1921, novelist Winthrop Clavering (Emerson), known as "The World's Greatest Detective", befriends young inventor Bartholomew Thompson (Spottiswoode Aitken), who has just invented a radio controlled flying bomb (weaponry that would come to be known as guided missiles).

Clavering and his Swedish maid Hulda (Bessie Love) set out to find the spies who have been invading the United States.

John Emerson had previously portrayed the role of Winthrop Clavering in the play The Conspiracy, from December 1912 to March 1914.

Griffith also helped to write the film's scenario with lead John Emerson and Robert Baker.