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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
“The serial with a thousand punches.”
Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Western · 20m
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.
Cast
Jack Dempsey
Jack Derry
Lon Chaney
Royce Rivers
Josie Sedgwick
Glory Billings
Herschel Mayall
Leonard Billigns
A
Albert R. Cody
Edgar Billings
R
Ruth Langdon
Ninette
Edward Hearn
Cyril Dennison
C
Clyde Benson
The Butler
Frank Lanning
MacManus, the Indian
Aggie Herring
Mrs. Corcoran
W
W.C. Robinson
Gang Member
A
Al Kaufman
Gang Member
Crew
- Director
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Director of Photography
- Gus Peterson
- Editor
- Hal C. Kern
- Producer
- Robert Brunton
Details
- Release date
- 1920-06-30
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Western
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Robert Brunton Productions, Pathé Exchange