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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack(Movie, 1920)

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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 ... ()
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About The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/30/1920
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Producer: Robert Brunton
Production Designer: Jack Okey
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Daredevil Jack"
Keywords: movie serial
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:208104, Added: 04/26/2018, Last updated: 02/28/2024