The Jade Box
# The Jade Box

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.

## 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

* 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

## 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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