The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
June 30, 1920
20m
"The serial with a thousand punches."
Overview
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.
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Cast
Jack Dempsey
Jack Derry
Lon Chaney
Royce Rivers
Josie Sedgwick
Glory Billings
Herschel Mayall
Leonard Billigns
Albert R. Cody
Edgar Billings
Ruth Langdon
Ninette
