The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
June 30, 1920Release Date
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
June 30, 1920Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Lon Chaney
Royce Rivers
Jack Dempsey
Jack Derry
Josie Sedgwick
Glory Billings
Herschel Mayall
Leonard Billigns
Albert R. Cody
Edgar Billings
Ruth Langdon
Ninette
W.S. Van Dyke
Director
Edward Hearn
Cyril Dennison
Jack Cunningham
Writer
Frederick Chapin
Writer
Clyde Benson
The Butler
Frank Lanning
MacManus, the Indian
Harry O. Hoyt
Writer
Robert Brunton
Producer
Aggie Herring
Mrs. Corcoran
Gus Peterson
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 30, 1920
StatusReleased
Running Time20m
Wiki.
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.