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The Emperor Jones Desert Island Films
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 12 min., 52 sec)) sound
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Desert Island Films, [1932]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- System requirements: FOD playback platform
- video file
- Summary:
- Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson) is conscripted to a chain gang after killing a fellow gambler, and escapes by clubbing a guard. On the run, he gets a job shoveling coal on a ship in the Caribbean, and jumps off when they pass an island. When he is captured by the natives, his freedom is bought by a white trader (Dudley Digges). Jones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is eventually outrun by his own magic. Selected to the national Film Registry in 1999
- Contents:
- The Emperor Jones (12:52);
- Notes:
- Originally released by Desert Island Films, 1932
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 10, 2019
- Title from distributor's description
- OCLC:
- 1127922562
- Publisher Number:
- 189493 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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