# The Jade Box

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{{short description|1930 film}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = The Jade Box
| image          = The Jade Box (1930) - 1.jpg
| caption        = Advertisement
| director       = [Ray Taylor](/source/Ray_Taylor_(director))
| producer       = [Henry MacRae](/source/Henry_MacRae)
| writer         = [Frederick J. Jackson](/source/Frederick_J._Jackson)
| narrator       =
| starring       = [Jack Perrin](/source/Jack_Perrin)<br />[Louise Lorraine](/source/Louise_Lorraine)<br />[Francis Ford](/source/Francis_Ford_(actor))
| music          = [Sam Perry](/source/Sam_Perry_(composer))
| cinematography =
| editing        =
| distributor    = [Universal Pictures](/source/Universal_Pictures)
| released       = {{Film date|1930|02|25}}
| runtime        = 10 chapters (220 minutes)
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
}}
'''''The Jade Box''''' (1930) is a [Universal](/source/Universal_Pictures) [movie serial](/source/Serial_(film)). It was a partial [sound film](/source/sound_film) with long [silent](/source/Silent_film) 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](/source/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](/source/Monroe_Salisbury) as John Lamar, original purchaser of the Box and cult abductee
*[Jack Perrin](/source/Jack_Perrin) as Jack Lamar, John's son & Helen's fiance
*[Francis Ford](/source/Francis_Ford_(actor)) as Martin Morgan, false friend of John Lamar
*[Louise Lorraine](/source/Louise_Lorraine) as Helen Morgan, Martin's daughter & Jack Lamar's fiance
*[Wilbur Mack](/source/Wilbur_Mack) as Edward Haines
*[Leo White](/source/Leo_White) as Percy Winslow
*[Jay Novello](/source/Jay_Novello) as Bit
*[Eileen Sedgwick](/source/Eileen_Sedgwick)
*[Frank Lackteen](/source/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.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Cline
 | first = William C.
 | title = In the Nick of Time
 | url = https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin
 | url-access = registration
 | year = 1984
 | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
 | isbn = 0-7864-0471-X
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin/page/47 47]
 | chapter = 3. The Six Faces of Adventure
 }}</ref>

==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
<sub>Source:</sub><ref>{{cite book
 | last = Cline
 | first = William C.
 | title = In the Nick of Time
 | url = https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin
 | url-access = registration
 | year = 1984
 | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
 | isbn = 0-7864-0471-X
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/innickoftimemot00clin/page/201 201]
 | chapter = Filmography
 }}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0021007|title=The Jade Box}}
*[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/J/JadeBox1930.html ''The Jade Box'' at SilentEra]

{{s-start}}
{{succession box 
| title=[Universal](/source/Universal_Pictures) [Serial](/source/Serial_(film)) 
| before=[Tarzan the Tiger](/source/Tarzan_the_Tiger) (1929)
| years='''The Jade Box (1930)'''
| after=[The Lightning Express](/source/The_Lightning_Express) (1930)}}
{{end}}

{{Universal serials}}
{{Ray Taylor (director)}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jade Box, The}}
Category:1930 films
Category:1930 fantasy films
Category:American silent serial films
Category:Transitional sound films
Category:American mystery films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Universal Pictures film serials
Category:Films directed by Ray Taylor
Category:Films with screenplays by Frederick J. Jackson
Category:American fantasy films
Category:1930 mystery films
Category:1930 English-language films
Category:1930 American films
Category:Silent mystery films
Category:English-language fantasy films
Category:English-language mystery films

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