Film

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

1920 · 20m · Action · Adventure · Mystery

The serial with a thousand punches.

IMDb

6.2

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.

Jack Dempsey

Jack Derry

Lon Chaney

Royce Rivers

Josie Sedgwick

Glory Billings

Herschel Mayall

Leonard Billigns

Albert R. Cody

Edgar Billings

Ruth Langdon

Ninette

Edward Hearn

Cyril Dennison

Clyde Benson

The Butler

Frank Lanning

MacManus, the Indian

Aggie Herring

Mrs. Corcoran

W.C. Robinson

Gang Member

Al Kaufman

Gang Member

S.E. Jennings

Gang Member

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Edgar Kennedy

Bull Montana

• W.S. Van DykeDirector
• Jack CunninghamStory
• Robert BruntonProducer
• Gus PetersonDirector of Photography
• Hal C. KernEditor

Release date

June 30, 1920

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Genres

Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Western

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