The Jade Box
The Jade Box 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