The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
June 30, 1920Release Date
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
June 30, 1920Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Jack Dempsey
Jack Derry

Lon Chaney
Royce Rivers

Josie Sedgwick
Glory Billings

Herschel Mayall
Leonard Billigns

Albert R. Cody
Edgar Billings

Ruth Langdon
Ninette

Edward Hearn
Cyril Dennison

Clyde Benson
The Butler

Frank Lanning
MacManus, the Indian

Aggie Herring
Mrs. Corcoran

W.C. Robinson
Gang Member

Al Kaufman
Gang Member

S.E. Jennings
Gang Member

Jack Cunningham
Story

Frederick Chapin
Scenario Writer

Harry O. Hoyt
Scenario Writer
Media.

Details.
Release DateJune 30, 1920
StatusReleased
Running Time20m
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Daredevil Jack is a 1920 American silent 15-chapter action film serial directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and featuring Lon Chaney as a villain. The chapters were shown weekly between February and May 1920. The serial's working titles were Daredevil Durant or Dead or Alive. An incomplete copy of the film is housed in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The supporting cast features Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, John George and Bull Montana. This was the first of 23 films, many of them short subjects, in which the iconic boxer Dempsey appeared, usually as the top-billed leading man. Dempsey claimed Lon Chaney applied his makeup in the film, and said he had "a feather-like touch" compared to the other makeup men he worked with.
The serial is today mostly lost, with some incomplete segments (mainly chapters 1, 2 and 4) stored at University of California, Los Angeles. Lon Chaney does not appear in the existing footage, which is unfortunate as this was Lon Chaney's only appearance in a serial.