The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

Action · 1920

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.

Starring

Harry O. Hoyt, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Dempsey, W.S. Van Dyke, Lon Chaney, Jack Cunningham, Josie Sedgwick, Hal C. Kern, Herschel Mayall

Director

W.S. Van Dyke

Producer

Robert Brunton