1951
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The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play of the same title, directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, written for the screen by playwright DuBose Heyward and starring Paul Robeson in the title role (a role he played onstage, both in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H ...
- 80 min
The Emperor Jones è un film del 1933 diretto da Dudley Murphy sotto la supervisione di William C. de Mille. La sceneggiatura di DuBose Heyward si basa sull'omonimo dramma di Eugene O'Neill, andato in scena a New York il 1º novembre 1920
The murderous Brutus Jones escapes from jail and bluffs his way to becoming the emperor of a Caribbean island.
- 75 min
- 295
- Film Masters TV
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.
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- Drama, Music
- Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille
- 1933-09-29
"The Emperor Jones" (1933), directed by Dudley Murphy and starring Paul Robeson, is a groundbreaking film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play. Robeson plays ...
- 75 min
- 916
- Simon Ward
The Emperor Jones. Of all Paul Robeson's eleven starring film performances, by far his most iconic was his breakthrough in the big-screen adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1933).
Jones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is outrun by his own magic. A black congregation prays for the wily and ambitious Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson), who is off to work on the railway.
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