Daredevil Jack (1920)
The serial with a thousand punches.
330 min
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.
- Release date
- February 2, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Jack Dempsey as Jack Derry
- Josie Sedgwick as Glory Billings
- Herschel Mayall as Leonard Billigns
- Albert R. Cody as Edgar Billings
- Ruth Langdon as Ninette
- Edward Hearn as Cyril Dennison
- Lon Chaney as Royce Rivers
- Clyde Benson as The Butler
- Frank Lanning as MacManus, the Indian
- Aggie Herring as Mrs. Corcoran
Crew
- W.S. Van Dyke · Director
- Jack Cunningham · Writer
- Frederick Chapin · Writer
- Harry O. Hoyt · Writer
- W.S. Van Dyke · Writer
- Robert Brunton · Producer
- Gus Peterson · Cinematographer
- Hal C. Kern · Editor