Emperor Jones

Emperor Jones (1933)

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

  • Genre: Drama, Music
  • Release Date: 1933-09-29
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 21 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 13min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Dudley Murphy
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Summary

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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  • Paul Robeson

    as Brutus Jones

  • Dudley Digges

    as Smithers

  • Frank H. Wilson

    as Jeff

  • Fredi Washington

    as Undine

  • Ruby Elzy

    as Dolly

  • George Haymid Stamper

    as Lem

  • Billie Holiday

    as Extra in Nightclub Scene

  • Moms Mabley

    as Marcella

  • Rex Ingram

    as Court Crier

  • Harold Nicholas

    as Young Tap Dancer
Editing Grant Whytock Editor
Writing Eugene O'Neill Original Story
Directing Dudley Murphy Director
Writing DuBose Heyward Screenplay
Production George Knafka Production Manager
Directing Joseph H. Nadel Assistant Director
Camera Ernest Haller Director of Photography
Production J. Edward Shugrue Production Manager
Art Herman Rosse Art Direction
Sound Joseph I. Kane Sound Engineer
Production John Krimsky Producer
Sound Frank Tours Original Music Composer
Production Gifford Cochran Producer

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