The Emperor Jones

Release Date:

Sep 19, 1933

Running Time:

1:20

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Dudley Murphy

Cast:

Paul Robeson	Brutus Jones
Dudley Digges	Smithers
Frank Wilson	Jeff
Fredi Washington	Undine
Ruby Elzy	Dolly
George Haymid Stamper	Lem
Blueboy O'Connor	Treasurer (uncredited)
Brandon Evans	Carrington (uncredited)
Taylor Gordon	Stick-man (uncredited)

Producers:

Gifford Cochran , John Krimsky

Writers:

DuBose Heyward

Language:

English

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A black congregation prays for the wily and ambitious Brutus Jones, who is off to work on the railway. Jones is conscripted to a chain gang after killing a fellow gambler, and escapes by clubbing a guard. On the run, he gets a job shoveling coal on a ship in the Caribbean, and jumps off when they pass an island. When he is captured by the natives, his freedom is bought by a white trader . Jones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is outrun by his own magic.

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