The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
The serial with a thousand punches.
10.0(1) 1920-06-30 20 minActionAdventureMysteryRomance
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.
ProducerRobert Brunton
DirectorW.S. Van Dyke
Cast & characters
Jack Dempsey
as Jack Derry
Lon Chaney
as Royce Rivers
Josie Sedgwick
as Glory Billings
Herschel Mayall
as Leonard Billigns
No photo
Albert R. Cody
as Edgar Billings
No photo
Ruth Langdon
as Ninette
Edward Hearn
as Cyril Dennison
No photo
Clyde Benson
as The Butler
Frank Lanning
as MacManus, the Indian
Aggie Herring
as Mrs. Corcoran
No photo
W.C. Robinson
as Gang Member
No photo
Al Kaufman
as Gang Member
No photo
S.E. Jennings
as Gang Member
Frank Coghlan Jr.
as —
Edgar Kennedy
as —
Bull Montana
as —
No photo
Fred Starr
as —
Carl Stockdale
as —
