Film

Daredevil Jack

Release year

1920

Synopsis

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.

Directed by

W.S. Van Dyke

Cast

Lon Chaney
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Aggie Herring
Edgar Kennedy
Frank Lanning
Herschel Mayall