The Jade Box

The Jade Box
Directed by	Ray Taylor
Produced by	Henry MacRae
Written by	Frederick J. Jackson
Starring	Jack Perrin; Louise Lorraine; Francis Ford
Music by	Sam Perry
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	February 25, 1930;
Running time	10 chapters (220 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English

The Jade Box (1930) is a Universal movie serial. It was a partial sound film with long silent sequences. Only an incomplete version survives today in Universal's vault, with incomplete footage and some missing sound discs.

Plot

John Lamar buys a Jade Box in Asia but it is stolen by his friend Martin Morgan. A cult, searching for the box because it contains the secret to invisibility, catches up with and abducts Lamar. After discovering the theft, the cult send a message to Martin and the pair's children: John Lamar's son, Jack, who is engaged to Martin Morgan's daughter, Helen. Jack searches for the Box while Martin attempts to discover the secret of invisibility for his own schemes.

Cast

Jack Perrin as Jack Lamar, John's son & Helen's fiance
Louise Lorraine as Helen Morgan, Martin's daughter & Jack's fiance
Francis Ford as Martin Morgan, false friend of John Lamar
Wilbur Mack as Edward Haines
Leo White as Percy Winslow
Monroe Salisbury as John Lamar, original purchaser of the Box and cult abductee
Jay Novello as Bit
Eileen Sedgwick
Frank Lackteen

Critical reception

Cline states that, while The Jade Box is not of a high technical quality, it did show at the time that a mystery serial could be improved by the addition of music and sound effects.[1]

Chapter titles

The Jade of Jeopardy
Buried Alive
The Shadow Man
The Fatal Prophecy
The Unseen Death
The Haunting Shadow
The Guilty Man
The Grip of Death
Out of the Shadows
The Atonement

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References

Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 47. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.
Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 201. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links

Preceded by Tarzan the Tiger (1929)	Universal Serial The Jade Box (1930)	Succeeded by The Lightning Express (1930)

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[1] Cline, William C. (1984). "3. The Six Faces of Adventure". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 47. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

[2] Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 201. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.