Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes to find a financier for his idea, but Kinley does not show any interest.
If you have a spare hour and you don't mind reading subtitles—or just guessing what people are saying since it's a silent film—then Seine stärkste Waffe is actually pretty decent. It is definitely for the crowd that likes to see how people in 1928 imagined the future of technology. If you need things to blow up every t...
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"If you have a spare hour and you don't mind reading subtitles—or just guessing what people are saying since it's a silent film—then Seine stärkste Waffe is actually pretty decent. It is definitely for the crowd that likes to see how people in 1928 imagined the future of technology. If you need things to blow up every ten minutes, you will probably be bored out of your mind and should go watch something else. Harry Piel stars as Harry Petersen, and he has that classic silent movie face where eve..."
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