The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

Jun 30, 1920

0h 20m

★ 0.0

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.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Mystery

Romance

Western

Production Companies

Robert Brunton Productions

Pathé Exchange

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Cast

Jack Derry

Jack Dempsey

Royce Rivers

Lon Chaney

Glory Billings

Josie Sedgwick

Leonard Billigns

Herschel Mayall

Edgar Billings

Albert R. Cody

Ninette

Ruth Langdon

Cyril Dennison

Edward Hearn

The Butler

Clyde Benson

MacManus, the Indian

Frank Lanning

Mrs. Corcoran

Aggie Herring

Gang Member

W.C. Robinson

Gang Member

Al Kaufman

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