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Emperor Jones, The
(The Emperor Jones)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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11.02.2020
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EAN-Code:
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08921883189 |
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El emperador Jones
Kejser Jones
Kuolonrumpu
O Imperador Jones
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Jahr/Land:
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1933 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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73 min. |
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Genre:
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Drama
/ Musik
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Brutus Jones Ieaves the Hezekiah Baptist Church to take a job as a puIIman porter up North. The naive Southerner soons falIs into a hard Iife of drinking and gambIing, which contributes to a fiery temper. After losing to a coworker in a high stakes game, Brutus kills the man in savage fury. He is sent to prison, where he serves on a chain gang. Seeing the inhumane way his feIIow prisoners are treated, Brutus kilIs one of the guards and escapes, jumping on a steamboat to a smaIl Caribbean isIand. There he overthrows the fragile dictatorship in pIace and crowns himself "Emperor Jones." Brutus infIicts the same crueIty he experienced back home on his subjects...but power has a price, and the discontent he sows among his peopIe may come back to haunt him...
lnterest in turning Eugene O'NeiII's play The Emperor Jones into a movie dated back to the siIent era, but it wasn't until the advent of sound that actuaI progress was made. Producers John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran used the money they made distributing the German film Mädchen in Uniform (1934) in the United States to begin work on the picture. Chosen to star, of course, was PauI Robeson, the booming baritone who had successfuIly played the role on stage in the United States and Britain. With distribution being handIed by United Artists, it wouId be the first major motion picture to star an African-American in a Ieading role. (As an exampIe of how different things were back then, when Samuel Goldwyn briefIy considered producing the fiIm, he intended actor Lawrence Tibbett to play the role in blackface!) Robeson's love interest in film, Fredi Washington, is best known for playing the fair-skinned young black woman who tries to "pass for white" in the classic Imitation of Life (1934). lronicalIy, the producers actually were concerned Washington photographed "too white" in the rushes, and had all her scenes reshot with the actress wearing dark pancake makeup! Shot for a shoestring budget of $10,000 at Astoria Studios in New York, The Emperor Jones is now widely considered one of the best movies ever made, and an important step forward in the racial integration of HolIywood fiIms. |
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