The Emperor Jones (1933)
46K Drama Genre Music Billie Holiday Blueboy O'Connor Brandon Evans DuBose Heyward Dudley Digges Dudley Murphy Eugene O'Neill Frank H. Wilson Fredi Washington Fritz Pollard George Haymid Stamper Harold Nicholas James P. Johnson Lorenzo Tucker Moms Mabley Paul Robeson Rex Ingram Ruby Elzy Taylor Gordon William C. de Mille 1933 6.4 Dudley Murphy English United States
The Emperor Jones: Directed by Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille. With Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington. Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
“A badly mutilated version of a mediocre play, but it still gives a taste of Paul Robeson, and this alone makes it worth watching. Anybody who doubts either Robesonu0026#39;s ability or the destructive effect of racism should see this film; hereu0026#39;s an actor, who, but for racism, would have outdone practically all of the conventional white leading men of the 30u0026#39;s.”
