Film
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
United States- Director
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Year
- 1920
The serial with a thousand punches.
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.
Top 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
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
Fred Starr
Carl Stockdale
Directed by
W.S. Van Dyke
Written by
Jack Cunningham
Produced by
Robert Brunton
