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1974-0195

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The Emperor Jones

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1933-05-25/1933-07

1933-09-29

John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.

director, Dudley Murphy; producer, John Krimsky; Gifford Cochran; scenario, Du Bose Heyward; photography, Ernest Haller; sound, Joseph Kane; editing, Grant Whytock; music, Frank Tours; supervising director, William C. de Mille

Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington, Ruby Elzy, George Stamp, Jackie Mayble, Blueboy O'Connor, Brandon Evans, Taylor Gordon

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United Artists Corporation

Pullman porter Brutus Jones leaves his small town for Harlem. There his friend Jeff initiates him to the big city lifestyle: he takes a mistress and finds a way to blackmail a financier. When he discovers that Jeff is cheating during a high-stakes dice game they fight and he accidentally kills Jeff. Convicted of murder, he escapes from jail and flees to Jamaica but he is caught on his way by a dictator who sells him to a crooked white trader who takes him as a partner. After a dishonest transaction with the dictator, Brutus is taken to be executed. He replaces the bullets with blanks and the dictator's troops, awed by his miraculous escape from death, accept him as be their new ruler. Proclaiming himself as Emperor Jones, he begins to loot the country, sending the money away to prepare a wealthy retirement. Discovering his scheme, the troops and the population revolt, chasing him through the jungle. <72mn 41s>

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