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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack(1920)
Status: Released
Date: 1920-06-30
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The serial with a thousand punches.
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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.
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Robert Brunton Productions
Pathé Exchange
Movie: The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
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Jack Dempsey
Jack Derry
Lon Chaney
Royce Rivers
Josie Sedgwick
Glory Billings
Herschel Mayall
Leonard Billigns
Edward Hearn
Cyril Dennison
Frank Lanning
MacManus, the Indian
Aggie Herring
Mrs. Corcoran
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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.
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1920-06-30
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The serial with a thousand punches.
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