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The Jade Box
1930 film
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.
The Jade Box | |
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Directed by | Ray Taylor |
Written by | Frederick J. Jackson |
Produced by | Henry MacRae |
Starring | Jack Perrin Louise Lorraine Francis Ford |
Music by | Sam Perry |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 chapters (220 minutes) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
- Monroe Salisbury as John Lamar, original purchaser of the Box and cult abductee
- Jack Perrin as Jack Lamar, John's son & Helen's fiance
- Francis Ford as Martin Morgan, false friend of John Lamar
- Louise Lorraine as Helen Morgan, Martin's daughter & Jack Lamar's fiance
- Wilbur Mack as Edward Haines
- Leo White as Percy Winslow
- Jay Novello as Bit
- Eileen Sedgwick
- Frank Lackteen
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]
- 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
Source:[2]
- 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.
Preceded by Tarzan the Tiger (1929) |
Universal Serial The Jade Box (1930) |
Succeeded by The Lightning Express (1930) |