Daredevil Jack
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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.[1] An incomplete copy of the film is housed in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2]
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Directed by | W. S. Van Dyke |
Written by | Jack Cunningham Frederick Chapin Harry O. Hoyt |
Produced by | Robert Brunton |
Starring | Jack Dempsey Josie Sedgwick Lon Chaney |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange Astra Films |
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Running time | 15 episodes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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.[3]
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.[2]