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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. Wilson, Fr...
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about a former convict who becomes the ruler of a Caribbean island. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
Año: 1933. Título original: The Emperor Jones. Sinopsis: Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson), quien trabaja en un ferrocarril, asesina a un amigo por hacer trampas con los dados y es condenado a trabajos forzados a perpetuidad.
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).
The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
Watch the 1933 film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter who becomes a Caribbean dictator. Learn about Robeson's impact as the first African-American leading man in mainstream movies and the censorship history of the film.
The Emperor Jones is a film directed by Dudley Murphy with Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington .... Year: 1933. Original title: The Emperor Jones. Synopsis: At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Jones joins the congregation in a spiritual.
