Emperor Jones
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Directed by Dudley Murphy
GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!
The story
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Cast & crew
Paul RobesonBrutus Jones
Dudley DiggesSmithers
Frank H. WilsonJeff
Fredi WashingtonUndine
Ruby ElzyDolly
Billie HolidayExtra in Nightclub Scene
Moms MableyMarcella
Rex IngramCourt Crier
Harold NicholasYoung Tap DancerExplore the crew
- Director
- Dudley Murphy
- Screenplay
- DuBose Heyward
- Editor
- Grant Whytock
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Haller
- Producer
- Gifford Cochran
- Producer
- John Krimsky
- Original Music Composer
- Frank Tours