The Jade Box
| The Jade Box | |
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| Directed by | Ray Taylor |
| Produced by | Henry MacRae |
| Written by | Frederick J. Jackson |
| Starring |
Jack Perrin Louise Lorraine Francis Ford |
| Music by | Sam Perry |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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10 chapters (220 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
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.
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.
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