title: The Jade Box
text: # 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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