The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1920 · W.S. Van Dyke · 20 min
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.
Jack DempseyJack Derry
Lon ChaneyRoyce Rivers
Josie SedgwickGlory Billings
Herschel MayallLeonard BillignsAlbert R. CodyEdgar BillingsRuth LangdonNinette
Edward HearnCyril DennisonClyde BensonThe Butler
Frank LanningMacManus, the Indian
Aggie HerringMrs. CorcoranW.C. RobinsonGang MemberAl KaufmanGang MemberS.E. JenningsGang Member
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Edgar Kennedy
