Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date1933-09-29
Languageen
Runtime1h 13m
Budget$263,000
Production
John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc.
5.6(28)
•1933•1h 13mEmperor Jones
"GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!"
Overview
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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