The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)

The serial with a thousand punches.

6.2/10

Cast

Jack Dempsey, Lon Chaney, Josie Sedgwick, Herschel Mayall, Albert R. Cody

Overview

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.