The Emperor Jones action drama each named for a municipality

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

DISC 1: SIDE A ~ THE LONG

a master of the grand performance and gesture of the stage

errol flynn and many more of the immortals

Wong' (1934)

The Emperor Jones action drama each named for a municipalityEugene 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