THE EMPEROR JONES
The Emperor Jones
Overview
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado he finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Cast
Paul Robeson
Dudley Digges
Frank H. Wilson
Fredi Washington
Ruby Elzy
George Haymid Stamper
Billie Holiday
Moms Mabley
Rex Ingram
Crew
Ernest Haller
DuBose Heyward
Grant Whytock
Joseph H. Nadel
Eugene O'Neill
Frank Tours
Dudley Murphy
Herman Rosse
Joseph I. Kane
Gifford Cochran
John Krimsky
J. Edward Shugrue
George Knafka
Black stage and film legend Paul Robeson stars in the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self assured AfricanAmerican 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.
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