The Jade Box
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Genre Action, Adventure, Crime Written by Frederick J. Jackson Country United States | Director Ray Taylor Producer Henry MacRae Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date February 25, 1930 (1930-02-25) Writer Frederick J. Jackson (story) Genres Action Film, Mystery, Adventure Film, Indie film, Silent film, Black-and-white Cast Louise Lorraine , Jack Perrin , Francis Ford , Eileen Sedgwick Similar movies Related Ray Taylor movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 in Universal's vault, with incomplete footage and some missing sound discs.
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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.
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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.
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
The Jade Box WikipediaThe Jade Box IMDb