The Emperor Jones (1933) | |
| Director(s) | Dudley Murphy |
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| Top Genres | Drama |
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The Emperor Jones (1933) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Dudley Murphy .
The Emperor Jones was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
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Musical Monday: The Emperor Jones (1933)
on Feb 6, 2023 From Comet Over HollywoodIt?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: The Emperor Jones (1933) ? M... Read full article
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Quotes from
Brutus Jones:
Ain't talking big what makes a man big, s'long as he makes folks believe it?
Smithers: [Jones prepares to escape into the jungle] Give my regards to any ghosts yer 'appen to meet!
Brutus Jones: [pause] If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you lessen he wants to lose it!
Brutus Jones: They's some things I don't got to be told. I can see 'em in folks' eyes.
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Smithers: [Jones prepares to escape into the jungle] Give my regards to any ghosts yer 'appen to meet!
Brutus Jones: [pause] If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you lessen he wants to lose it!
Brutus Jones: They's some things I don't got to be told. I can see 'em in folks' eyes.
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Facts about
In his autobiography, Paul Robeson said he regretted making the film because it deviated too much from the play.
The jungle scenes were originally to be shot in the swamps of the American South, but when Paul Robeson signed for the film, he had a clause inserted in his contract that specifically prohibited filming in the South, due to that area's violent racist history and strict racial segregation. The scenes were filmed on a studio set in Astoria, Queens, New York.
Because of the objection to the word "nigger", United Artists deleted it from prints to be shown in Negro theaters. Still, the United Negro Improvement Association condemned the film.
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The jungle scenes were originally to be shot in the swamps of the American South, but when Paul Robeson signed for the film, he had a clause inserted in his contract that specifically prohibited filming in the South, due to that area's violent racist history and strict racial segregation. The scenes were filmed on a studio set in Astoria, Queens, New York.
Because of the objection to the word "nigger", United Artists deleted it from prints to be shown in Negro theaters. Still, the United Negro Improvement Association condemned the film.
read more facts about The Emperor Jones...
