Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille
Writers: Eugene O’Neill, DuBose Heyward
Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
Genres: Drama, Music, Pre Code
CCC sidenote: In 1999, the film was deemed „culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant“ by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
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