The Boomerang (1913)
In the government offices important plans have been drafted for the building of a certain new type of war aeroplane. At a meeting of the minister of war's cabinet, a part of the plans mysteriously disappear, the thief obviously being one of the four present. A careful search of them all discloses nothing. Irene, the daughter of the minister of war, in love with Maxwell, her father's secretary, finds out about the matter, and when her father is threatened with being thrown out of office, she sets about the recovery of the plans herself. Meanwhile, it has become known that the part of the plans stolen are absolutely useless without the "key," which was not taken. Realizing that another attempt will be made, Irene, when opportunity presents itself, substitutes blank paper for the key and secretly lays in wait for the thief. He comes, and after a struggle with her, escapes, she following. Her father, with the aid of the police, succeeds in tracing her. At the conspirators' den she is captured and thrown into a prison room with Maxwell, who is the thief. He has been wounded in the struggle with Irene. Having failed in his work, he has been thrown there to die. Meanwhile her father and the police arrive, just as she finds that Maxwell, the spy, is her lover. The plans are recovered, and all is straightened out when Irene gives her father the "key" which she has kept secreted. She sacrifices all for her father, and the boomerang came back. The man whom she had loved was nothing but a spy, a dual personality.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry McRae Webster | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| E.H. Calvert | |
| Irene Warfield | |
| Thomas Commerford | |
| Jules Ferrar |
