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| Directed by | Dudley Murphy |
| Screenplay by | DuBose Heyward |
| Based on | The Emperor Jones 1920 play by Eugene O'Neill |
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| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Edited by | Grant Whytock |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $263,000[1] |
The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play of the same title, directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, written for the screen by playwright DuBose Heyward and starring Paul Robeson in the title role (a role he played onstage, both in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington and Ruby Elzy.
The film was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers in Gifford A. Cochran and John Krimsky, who was best known for bringing the 1932 German film Mädchen in Uniform to American audiences. It was the only film produced by the two (Cochran stopped as a producer after a failed American rendition of The Threepenny Opera that same year).[2] It was filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios with the beach scene shot at Jones Beach Long Beach, New York.
- ^ "THE LASKY PRODUCTIONS". Western Mail. Perth. November 2, 1933. p. 32. Retrieved August 5, 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Blau, Eleanor (January 4, 1978). "Gifford A. Cochran; Co-Produced Movie Of 'Emperor Jones'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 4, 2024.