America Saved from War - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Tom Larnigan, occupying a flat in New York with his mother and Bruce, latter recovered, brought from Chicago, Tom receives an appointment from the President as special examiner of criminal trusts. He is ordered to investigate the Steel ...See moreTom Larnigan, occupying a flat in New York with his mother and Bruce, latter recovered, brought from Chicago, Tom receives an appointment from the President as special examiner of criminal trusts. He is ordered to investigate the Steel Trust. J. Brooks Carney, the head of the Steel Trust, has no wish to have his business investigated, as he is planning a big coup that will mean billions to the steel industry. The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict. This would mean untold orders and profit for the Steel Trust. Stone and Carney plan to carry out the plot with aid of an eccentric inventor named Bill Bean. A part of the plan is discussed in the Maxwell home, scraps of conversation overheard by Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford, who decide to investigate. Putting into effect their plan, Dorothy gets Kitty a job in Dunn's office through a bogus note signed "The Fifteen." Dorothy waits outside and Kitty is to drop her notes from a window containing any information that she may pick up. Stone phones Dunn, asking where he will find Bean. He learns that the best place is 63 Pell Street. Kitty overhears and drops a note out of the window telling Dorothy to send Tom to the same place. Stone and Carney find Bean at his home. He shows them an invention he has just completed, a portable wireless outfit, which, arranged in a vest, can be worn without detection. The operator has a key in each hand; by bringing hands together the current is released and will cause an explosion at a great distance. Bean shows his work of invention and they decide to try it out at eight that night. Carney, a careful man, derides to do the work himself. He learns that Tom is expected home that night so he leaves a package with Mrs. Larnigan for Tom. It is high explosive, with magnet attached and left exposed. He intends fastening the other package of explosive on the battleship. Bean stops at the hop joint, is attacked and rescued by Tom. Bean tells Tom of the invention and Tom, being offered a place as his assistant, accepts. They start for the docks and Bean sends a note to Stone, telling him that he has a new assistant named Tom Larnigan. Stone phones Dunn to send one to get Larnigan out of the way. Kitty hears their conversation, gets word to Dorothy, who, together with Ben Travers, hurries to the dock. Mrs. Larnigan, attracted by the magnet on the package, pulls it off. Carney, with other package of explosives, is rowing to the battleship. Tom, realizing the plot, trios to take the machine from Bean, but in the struggle Bean's hands come together, throwing the current. Carney is killed and Mrs. Larnigan is given a shock. Men from Dunn's office try to kill Tom. Tom is thrown into the water. Dorothy dives after him while Travers keeps the crooks from further interference. Tom and Dorothy are rescued. Bruce adds another name to his list: J. Brooks Carney, killed. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less