Emperor Jones
GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!
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- Drama
- Music
Overview
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Keywords
- island
- escape
- caribbean sea
- pre-code
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 29, 1933
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.
- Cast
- George Haymid Stamper,Dudley Digges,Billie Holiday,Paul Robeson,Rex Ingram,Ruby Elzy,Moms Mabley,Harold Nicholas,Frank H. Wilson,Fredi Washington
- Director
- Dudley Murphy
- Writer
- Eugene O'Neill,DuBose Heyward
- Producer
- John Krimsky,Gifford Cochran
- Cinematography
- Ernest Haller
- Music
- Frank Tours
- Budget
- $263,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0023985