The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)

10.0/10 20 min Action Adventure Mystery Romance Western

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.

Cast

Jack Dempsey

Jack Derry

Lon Chaney

Royce Rivers

Josie Sedgwick

Glory Billings

Herschel Mayall

Leonard Billigns

Edward Hearn

Cyril Dennison

Frank Lanning

MacManus, the Indian

Aggie Herring

Mrs. Corcoran

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Edgar Kennedy

Bull Montana

Carl Stockdale

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