Emperor Jones Early African American Film Starring Paul Robeson Part 1

An excellent 1933 film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neil play which is in itself an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King. The movie stars singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson and tells the story of a man from a small town that leaves home gets involved with murder, escapes prison and ends up the ruler of a Caribbean nation. It created quite a stir when it came out as in some scenes the main character has his shirt off!
The Wiki lowdown;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Jones_%281933_film%29
Imdb link;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023985/

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Entertainment

Tags:

• eugene
• o'neil
• african
• american
• play
• theater
• musical
• paul
• robeson
• movie
• film

[Jupperna]

Very interesting! Fascinating to see a movie so old, and seeing how 'black' religious society was depicted back then. Thanx for uploading :)

[MindsiMedia]

@Jupperna Thanks for looking in.

[fernandoiscrazy]

A thousand views and no ones comments on this movie!!?! Wow the melodies alone need to be worth mentioning damnit! Same train...that carried my mother, same train be back tomorrow, same train.......same train................

[MindsiMedia]

@fernandoiscrazy Thanks for watching.

[Tilla121]

HEY I LOVE THIS MOVIE I STUMBLE UPON AT THE LOCAL LIBRARY I LOVE IT!!! IM GOING TO OWN!!!

[LiquidSolidRaiden]

It's great that you uploaded this, this is also in the Paul Robeson Criterion Collection.