Emperor Jones (The Emperor Jones) (1933)

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Directed by

William C. de Mille

Dudley Murphy

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Paul Robeson
Brutus Jones

Dudley Digges
Smithers

Fredi Washington
Undine

Ruby Elzy
Dolly

Taylor Gordon
Stick-man

Billie Holiday
Extra in Nightclub Scene

Rex Ingram
Court Crier

James P. Johnson
Pianist

Written by

Eugene O'Neill

Dubose Heyward

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Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

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"THE CLASSICS YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW Paul Robeson “Robeson’s greatest contribution to black film history—and the aspect of his work that most disturbed white moviegoers—was his proud, defiant portrait of the black man. In his best-known film, The Emperor Jones, Robeson portrays’s O’Neill’s black man who refuses to kowtow to anyone—Brutus Jones, an arrogant, strong-willed braggart who rises from a Pullman porter to autocrat. In one particularly interesting scene on a railroad"