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  1. The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play of the same title, directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, written for the screen by playwright DuBose Heyward and starring Paul Robeson in the title role (a role he played onstage, both in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson ...

    • 80 min
  2. A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about Brutus Jones, a former convict who becomes the emperor of a Caribbean island by deception and violence. The film features Paul Robeson's singing and acting, as well as scenes of voodoo, rebellion and jungle horror.

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    • Drama, Music
    • Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille
    • 1933-09-29
  3. Emperor is a 2012 American-Japanese historical drama film directed by Peter Webber. Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox star in lead roles as General Douglas MacArthur and Brigadier General Bonner Fellers respectively.

  4. The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American 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.

    • Eugene O'Neill
    • 1920
  5. Jones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is outrun by his own magic. A black congregation prays for the wily and ambitious Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson), who is off to work on...

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    • Paul Robeson
    • Dudley Murphy
    • Drama
  6. Watch the 1933 film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play, starring Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter who becomes a dictator in a Caribbean island. Learn about the film's history, restoration, and special features, including interviews with Robeson's family and colleagues.

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  8. Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.