The Emperor Jones (1933) by Dudley Murphy and William Churchill de Mille

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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.

Paul Robeson – Brutus Jones Dudley Digges – Smithers Frank H. Wilson – Jeff Fredi Washington – Undine Ruby Elzy – Dolly George Haymid Stamper – Lem Jackie "Moms" Mabley – Marcella Blueboy O'Connor – Treasurer Brandon Evans – Carrington

Rex Ingram – Court Crier

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Licence or status

Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

Rights statement

Public domain

Made from

The Emperor Jones, Eugene O'Neill's play of 1928: free in the United States, as it was first published in 1928, and its US term of 95 years has ended (17 U.S.C. §304(b), §305).

Credit

Dudley Murphy, William Churchill de Mille

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