"GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!" 29 September 1933 Drama, Music 73 mins
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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Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones
Dudley Digges as Smithers
Frank H. Wilson as Jeff
Fredi Washington as Undine
Ruby Elzy as Dolly
George Haymid Stamper as Lem
Billie Holiday as Extra in Nightclub Scene
Moms Mabley as Marcella
Rex Ingram as Court Crier
Harold Nicholas as Young Tap Dancer
Grant Whytock Editor
DuBose Heyward Screenplay
Dudley Murphy Director
Eugene O'Neill Original Story
J. Edward Shugrue Production Manager
Frank Tours Original Music Composer
Herman Rosse Art Direction
John Krimsky Producer
Gifford Cochran Producer
Joseph H. Nadel Assistant Director
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