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The Emperor Jones is a american film of genre Drama directed by William C. de Mille released in USA on 29 september 1933 with Paul Robeson

The Emperor Jones (1933)

The Emperor Jones
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Released in USA 29 september 1933
Length 1h12
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical
Rating63% 3.194363.194363.194363.194363.19436

The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title, was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers, and directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, who had sought O'Neill's permission to film the play since its 1924 production in New York. He cast Paul Robeson in his first film role, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, and Fredi Washington. The screenplay was written by DuBose Heyward and filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios with the beach scene shot at Jones beach Long Beach, New York. Robeson starred in the O'Neill play on stage, both in the United States and England, a role that had helped launch his career.

Synopsis

At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who has just been hired as a Pullman Porter, a job that served the upward mobility of thousands of African-American men in the first half of the 20th-century. Jones proudly shows off his uniform to his girlfriend Dolly (and the film's audience, setting up the contrast with the later scenes in which "the Emperor Jones" parades around in overdone military garb) before joining the congregation for a spiritual. But Jones is quickly corrupted by the lures of the big city, taking up with fast women and gamblers. One boisterous crap game leads to a fight in which he inadvertently stabs Jeff, the man who had introduced him to the fast-life and from whom he had stolen the affections of the beautiful Undine (played by Fredi Washington).

Actors

Paul Robeson

(Brutus Jones)Dudley Digges

(Smithers)Fredi Washington

(Undine)Ruby Elzy

(Dolly)Frank H. Wilson

(Jeff (as Frank Wilson))
And :
Rex Ingram
Moms Mabley
Marietta Canty
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