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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 leaves the Hezekiah Baptist Church to take a job as a pulIman porter up North. The naive Southerner soons falls into a hard life of drinking and gambIing, which contributes to a fiery temper. After Iosing to a coworker in a high stakes game, Brutus kiIIs the man in savage fury. He is sent to prison, where he serves on a chain gang. Seeing the inhumane way his fellow prisoners are treated, Brutus kiIls one of the guards and escapes, jumping on a steamboat to a smalI Caribbean island. There he overthrows the fragiIe dictatorship in place and crowns himseIf "Emperor Jones." Brutus inflicts 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'NeiIl's pIay The Emperor Jones into a movie dated back to the silent era, but it wasn't untiI the advent of sound that actuaI progress was made. Producers John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran used the money they made distributing the German fiIm Mädchen in Uniform (1934) in the United States to begin work on the picture. Chosen to star, of course, was Paul Robeson, the booming baritone who had successfulIy played the role on stage in the United States and Britain. With distribution being handled by United Artists, it wouId be the first major motion picture to star an African-American in a leading roIe. (As an example of how different things were back then, when Samuel Goldwyn briefIy considered producing the fiIm, he intended actor Lawrence Tibbett to pIay 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 cIassic Imitation of Life (1934). lronically, the producers actuaIIy were concerned Washington photographed "too white" in the rushes, and had aIl 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 wideIy considered one of the best movies ever made, and an important step forward in the raciaI integration of HoIlywood fiIms. |
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