Dynamite Dan is a 1924 American drama film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and featuring Kenneth MacDonald and Boris Karloff. The film is about a young dockworker who is framed for a robbery he did not commit by his foreman, gangster Tony Garcia. Prints of this film survive and are available on DVD. Boris Karloff, who plays the gangster, only appears in the beginning and end of the film.
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Plot
A young dockworker named Dan McLeod is accused of a robbery at his job on the loading dock that was actually committed by his foreman Tony Garcia. Dan escapes from the police and a comical detective named Sherlock Jones sets out to track him down and recapture him. Dan gets a job as a gym teacher at his girlfriend Helen's school, but gets fired soon after. Next he becomes a professional boxer and calls himself Dynamite Dan. Dan asks his girlfriend to spy for him at his old job and learn who it was that framed him for the robbery. In the film's finale, Dan has to box a gangster named Brute Lacy in the ring for the championship as his girlfriend is being menaced by gangster Tony Garcia.
Cast
Kenneth MacDonald as Dynamite Dan McLeod
Frank Rice as Boss
Boris Karloff as Tony Garcia
Eddie Harris as Sherlock Jones
Diana Alden as Helen Havens (Dan's girlfriend)
Harry Woods as Brute Lacy the boxer
Jack Richardson as Spike Moran
Emily Gerdes as Toodles
Jack Waltemeyer as Tim O'Rourke
Max Asher (credited as Max Aschert)
Carrie Daumery as The School Principal
Mrs. Harold Lockwood as School Teacher