The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)

The serial with a thousand punches.

• Action
• Adventure
• Mystery
• Romance
• Western

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.

Rating

10 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

June 30, 1920

Runtime

20m

Language

English

Director

W.S. Van Dyke

Status

Released