Movielogr
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke
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.
Length 20 minutes
Actors
Jack Dempsey | Lon Chaney | Josie Sedgwick | Herschel Mayall | Albert R. Cody | Ruth Langdon | Edward Hearn | Clyde Benson | Frank Lanning | Aggie Herring | W.C. Robinson | Al Kaufman | S.E. Jennings | Frank Coghlan Jr. | Edgar Kennedy | Bull Montana | Fred Starr | Carl Stockdale