The Adventures of Daredevil Jack(1920)
The serial with a thousand punches.
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.
Movie: The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
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Royce Rivers
Glory Billings
Leonard Billigns
Cyril Dennison
MacManus, the Indian
Mrs. Corcoran
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