The Jade Box

The Jade Box

Infobox Film
name = The Jade Box


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director = Ray Taylor
producer = Henry MacRae
writer = Frederick J. Jackson
narrator =
starring = Jack Perrin
Louise Lorraine
Francis Ford
music = Sam Perry
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = 25 February 1930
runtime = 10 chapters (220 min)
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
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imdb_id = 0021007

"The Jade Box" (1930) is a Universal movie serial. It was a partially sound film with large silent elements. Only an incomplete version survives today.

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. [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 47
chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure
]

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 AtonementSource: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 201
chapter = Filmography
]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0021007|title=The Jade Box
* [http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/J/JadeBox1930.html The Jade Box at Silent Era]

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title=Universal Serial
before=Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
years=The Jade Box (1930)
after=The Lightning Express (1930)


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