Emperor Jones
GIN...GALS...DICE AND MURDER MADE HIM A FUGITIVE IN THE NIGHT! BUT MORNING FOUND HIM A KING!
A pre-code drama about an ambitious fugitive who seizes power through cunning and bluster, only to face the psychological unraveling that comes with his ill-gotten throne.
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
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