The Emperor Jones PG
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Filmrise
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Robeson | |
Performer: | Jackie Mayble, Ruby Elzy, Frank Wilson, Gordon Taylor, Dudley Digges, Fredi Washington, Brandon Evans, Blueboy O'Connor & George Haymid Stamper | |
Directed by | Dudley Murphy | |
Edited by | Grant Whytock | |
Screenwriting by | DuBose Heyward | |
Composition by | Rosamond Johnson & Frank Tours | |
Story by | Eugene O'Neill | |
Produced by | John Krimsky & Gifford Cochran | |
Director of Photography: | Ernest Haller |
Entertainment Reviews:
The result, to my amazement, was an unexciting and indifferent motion picture.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: 3/4 --
The Emperor Jones bludgeoned through color barriers.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: C- --
Despite its marked deficiencies ... remains a "must see" for historic and cultural purposes
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Old School Reviews
Rating: B+ --
A great performance from the legendary African-American singer Paul Robeson.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
It is a distinguished offering, resolute and firm, with a most compelling portrayal by Paul Robeson.
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New York Times
Paul Robeson gives one of his greatest film performances in this arty, dated, but interesting 1933 adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
Robeson's powerful presence, particularly through his wonderful, mellifluous voice, dominates each scene.
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TV Guide
Description by OLDIES.com:
The Emperor Jones - Digitally Remastered. In the key role of his career, Paul Robeson repeats his powerful stage portrayal of Brutus Jones, a railroad porter who becomes the ruler of a remote Caribbean island, a story loosely patterned after the life of Haitian emperor Henri Christophe. Adapted by DuBose Heyward from a Eugene O'Neill play, Emperor Jones follows the railroad porter Brutus Jones (Robeson) who leaves his girlfriend Dolly (Ruby Elzy) in favor of Undine (Fredi Washington), but that too is short-lived. A master manipulator, liar, and swindler, Brutus murders his friend Jeff (Frank Wilson) over a crap game. He ends up on a chain gang, but escapes to Haiti where the white trader Smithers (Dudley Digges) buys his freedom. Scamming his way into a business partnership with Smithers , Brutus becomes filthy rich. The Haitian natives begin to worship him like a god and Brutus begins his tyrannical rule as self-appointed emperor. "A distinguished offering, resolute and firm, with a most compelling portrayal by Paul Robeson." -The New York Times.
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- Sales Rank: 57,437
- UPC: 889290013972
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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