Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
Director: Dudley Murphy
Writers: Eugene O’Neill (play), DuBose Heyward (screenplay)
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
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First Hollywood film featuring a black man as the star! RECOGNIZE!!!!
A great tale.
They are showing this on CUNY-TV for Black history month even as we speak!
Paul Robeson = Force of Nature
This is the PC version of the film. The word "nigger" has been censored.
im a bit confused with d ending… did he die because of the silver bullet or with his guilt ??? can anybody tell?
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