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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.

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.

    Chapter titles

    1. The Jade of Jeopardy
    2. Buried Alive
    3. The Shadow Man
    4. The Fatal Prophecy
    5. The Unseen Death
    6. The Haunting Shadow
    7. The Guilty Man
    8. The Grip of Death
    9. Out of the Shadows
    10. The Atonement

    Source:

    References

    The Jade Box Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Jade Box IMDb


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