Prudent
Mr. Prudent, known around Philadelphia affectionately as "Uncle Prudent," was the president of the Weldon Institute. He and his secretary Phillip Evans were abducted by the mad inventor Robur using his airship the Albatross, but escaped, sabotaging and destroying the ship in the process. Some time later, they, along with a pilot, were out testing their newly designed balloon, the Go-Ahead, when Robur returned with a second Albatross and attacked them. Their balloon crashed and Prudent and Evans would have perished, but Robur rescued them and their pilot, and returned them safely to earth with a stern warning that mankind wasn't yet ready for flight.
Master of the World (1961 film)
Prudent was a Pennsylvanian businessman based in Philadelphia whose company specialized in making aircraft and weapons. He was apparently a widower but had a daughter named Dorothy. A blustery but kindhearted man despite his chosen business, Prudent, while serving as a "guest" of Robur, was horrified when he witnessed war first hand, watching first the destruction of a US ship, and then several British ones and finally two entire armies in Egypt at the hands of Robur. While he came to agree that war was an abomination he'd helped to perpetuate, he sided with John Strock, refusing to accept Robur's brutish methods as morally right in his quest to end war by creating more of it. He eventually escaped along with his daughter and Strock.
