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Emperor Jones (1933)

GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!

5.6(27)1h 13mSeptember 29, 1933

Drama Music

Dudley Murphy

Director

DuBose Heyward

Writer

Rate

Diary

Overview

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

Cast

PR

Paul Robeson

Brutus Jones

DD

Dudley Digges

Smithers

FH

Frank H. Wilson

Jeff

FW

Fredi Washington

Undine

Emperor Jones · Cinemalant

RE

Ruby Elzy

Dolly

BH

Billie Holiday

Extra in Nightclub Scene

MM

Moms Mabley

Marcella

RI

Rex Ingram

Court Crier

HN

Harold Nicholas

Young Tap Dancer

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: September 29, 1933
Budget: $263,000
Production: John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.
Country: United States of America

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Keywords

islandescapepre-codecaribbean sea

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