The Master Mystery (1918)

In this actionpacked serial government agent Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector the Automaton In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints He is chained tied with barbed wire padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water tied beneath a descending elevator strapped to an electric chair and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber