The Emperor Jones action drama Wong' (1934)

Wong' (1934)

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each named for a municipality on the Filipino island in which the season was filmed

There are good guys and bad guys but what does it take to be a golden boy

A cousin Jane has never met turns up out of the blue

The Emperor Jones action drama Wong' (1934)Eugene O'Neill's controversial play about the rise and fall of Brutus Jones, an upwardly mobile African American whose life careens from railroad porter to convict to a corrupt island ruler in Haiti, made for an even more daring film adaptation in 1933. Actor Paul Robeson (who also played Jones on stage) delivers a career performance that features several musical numbers and climaxes with a 25 minute monologue delivered as his life unravels before