The Emperor Jones (motion picture) - Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, and Frank H. Wilson (performers) (1933)
Title
The Emperor Jones (motion picture) - Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, and Frank H. Wilson (performers) (1933)
Subject
Political corruption--West Indies--Drama
West Indies--Fiction
Film adaptations
URL
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Description
Popular film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill play.
Content description from Imdb.com
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Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Ephemera: none available
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Content description from Imdb.com
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023985/):
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Dudley Murphy (director)
Eugene O'Neill (play writer)
DuBose Heyward (screenplay writer)
Paul Robeson (actor)
Dudley Digges (actor)
Frank H. Wilson (actor)
Publisher
John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.
Date
1933 September 29
Citation
“The Emperor Jones (motion picture) - Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, and Frank H. Wilson (performers) (1933),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/29.