Emperor Jones

“GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!”

Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson) wants more than a Pullman porter's wages, and he gets it by killing a guard and walking out of a prison camp. Dudley Murphy follows him to a Caribbean island, where bluff and bravado carry him into the role of emperor. Beside him are the people who knew him before the crown, including Undine (Fredi Washington) and Dolly (Ruby Elzy), and what they know about him shadows everything he builds.