Actually, Emperor Jones’s life is an open book of closed deals. Some of those deals were sharp. But they are all closed. He made those closed deals in one city, and incidentally made the city.

starring Paul Robeson tells the story of Brutus Jones, a man who escapes prison and, through cunning and ruthlessness, declares himself the emperor of a Caribbean island. His reign is marked by ...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.