- The Jade Box
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name = The Jade Box
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director = Ray Taylor
producer =Henry MacRae
writer =Frederick J. Jackson
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starring =Jack Perrin Louise Lorraine
Francis Ford
music =Sam Perry
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distributor =Universal Pictures
released =25 February 1930
runtime = 10 chapters (220 min)
country = USA
language = English
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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
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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]###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Universal Serial
before=Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
years=The Jade Box (1930)
after=The Lightning Express (1930)
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