The Emperor Jones (1933) Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges

[Music] good afternoon [Music] engaged [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I want to eat America [Music] [Music] [Applause] prodigy [Music] that we devote the closing problem faithful member of our clock who's leaving us tonight to fill the position of great importance in foreign power I refer to our brother Brutus Jones [Music] our brothers [Music] [Music] [Applause] honey you show his wonderful in them clothes yeah yeah I suppose this closes something to look at back here honey where I've been while I've been training for the job you wouldn't notice him you want to see them New York gals on Lenox Avenue them girls as fast I bet switching themselves to catch the men but honey you wouldn't look at none of them fast girls while he's away from home would you they none of them's pretty in the face like my girl and that prodigal son he takes the inheritance with his happy gizm and he spend it on the past life but not this boy alone and the prodigal son is a liar and the two days in it [Music] and there's the Capitol Building looking like a palace on the hill and the big front door opens and the president of the United States marches down the Avenue with a band before and a band behind and it comes right up to my car and he says just as natural well Brutus ensure is much of a man and I for one wants to compliment you on land in the job honey they sing in the closing song at the church he's got time Jeff's train is going to pick me up at the water tank but you know there's waiting to see you before you go sure I hate to leave my girl [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] goodbye folks [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you here she is foreign that's your style and take care of yourself life comes back now boys [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] goodbye now you're gonna stick to it sure oh yeah cause you big time from and disown and I suppose you think you know what all is about this job so didn't you don't instruct him oh just to rudimental now he's gonna pick up the higher education finances yes brother and right here is where I estimates the profits for the Run now if you brushes a dime out of this you're doing well and number three here boy that's good for hair a whole section it's a honeymoon couple it's imagine if you please your handwrited means the long green big money that's what I want to tell you you know there's two kind of women that ride with a woman because the kind that says the Raven Porter no no yeah and I'm gonna show you where to spend it [Music] [Music] I don't know hi Missy from South Carolina hello [Music] big boy I got you fishy rice you know I'm from South Carolina for sale Georgia [Music] South of the night this is my New York Home move and you'll always find me here for myself I don't know she was around here somewhere I didn't know I was coming in there [Music] I [Music] [Music] said this is Andy read Mr Jones [Music] nice to meet you Miss Jones on a dam sure go ahead you my bridge [Music] I like the city big boy I like it fine now coming back soon as soon as a train will bring me [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] you ain't got nothing to be afraid of I can handle a little two bits Porter you ought to throw him over anyhow then be just you and me sometimes I wonders wonders what [Music] You're gonna laugh see you ain't got nothing to worry about honey but you ain't heard the good news yet I've been transferred to the president's private car oh that ain't nothing but just say you don't make no tips on that job that's why you didn't take it they are that's the difference between me and Jeff he can't see no bigger than two bits me or just be stepping the moon class on that private car foreign good night good night good night Jones good night anything on your mind Joan that's awful word about that merger sure would be bad for us if that news got out us how long have you been with me Jones six weeks learning fast June almost too fast you got any money to him I got about 300 in the bank all right you're in the pool for 300 thank you sir and Jones I would rather you didn't leave the car until Sunday two-day solitary but it'll be worth it right yes and Jones when we get back to New York it might be a good idea for you to go back on your own run there's more room for big men in Georgia yes why are you sure was born to have that oyster front where'd you get such a good fit well the boss and me talk it over and he sent me to his tailor he said Jones you've got a position to live up to now and you can't afford to be careless in your time you and Mr Harrington must be getting Mighty thick why don't we just pull off a little deal together I give him some valuable advice and he said Jones you're learning fast Nanny takes me into partnership ain't you going back on the Pullman no more well I'll stick by the job for a few more runs but uh things don't seem to be gone quite right on that old one of mine and the boss asked me to drop down that way and straighten them out well I guess since you'll be down that way you 'll probably drop in the White House oh that's an idea okay what are you trying to do give you for your stream Jones you're getting big you're learning fast then it takes me into partnership come clean Big Boy where'd you get that money in a crap game go ahead laugh some more you don't laugh yourself out over my payroll oh honey sweetheart I didn't mean it I was only kidding no it's too funny to live with any woman's baggage what gets heavy and heavy the longer you're totes them you got to change them to keep traveling light is forty dollars and goodbye so he was all set to do this before you come in through is true you heard me you can go back to you face there ain't nobody like is indeed yeah you ain't the first man that's going down without thinking everybody else was a fool I got eyes even if Jeff ain't and you can tell that pole cat Bella do if she wants to keep on trying to look like gobble better stay out of my way see him sister thank you from the West [Music] I'm Dean I need Miss Ledoux I've known Bill since before she straightened her hair and when she went with Johnson where is he now Belle still in jail Dundee where's your matters I'm just trying to talk so that the whole cat can understand me come on baby let's dance what's the matter with you tonight on Dean now I don't like you acting so do my power yeah don't make me mad when he's been fighting in the back for a year what do you mean I mean when I have finished with bell Diego has much less than love thank you [Music] guys traveling light [Music] [Applause] [Music] his shoe on the line unit [Music] who is that singing is that jewel in the pie yes well if you can't sing no better than that shut up this girl must have slowed him down yes what season you Jeff you've been trying to ride somebody ever since you come in here ah woman trap [Music] ever said you faded [Music] 20 dollars they doing here brother dude the man went away give me a shooting there somebody come on give me a shooter if you get that man take that chicken feet over here play it on the line come on give me a shooter um [Music] [Music] he's ready stew [Music] [Music] they don't they do I know that have a crap game today the Yankee boys is in town they were all the man's favorite catch them hopping 11 imagine crooked huh well if they use crooked they stand just like him and here's where I straighten them both foreign [Music] time it seems to make me so one thing I want you are even two [Music] things [Music] and two okay [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] another day [Music] eat a donut [Music] thank you [Music] Jackal diamonds [Music] I'm here Jones open it up open it up sleeping well I'll learn him how to run away wake him up if I lay my hands on that boy the Lord will strike me dead won't take orders hey [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Applause] Let It Go [Music] let me in quick ly you hear me let me eat quickly thank you you know but she's in trouble listen Dolly you gotta move fast give me a file a change of clothes especially shoes hurry honey I gotta leave the country [Music] thank you hey where is this tub stopping next King's son get there tomorrow if we stopping on these little island on the way oh there's no local just running Express Kingston quite a big city now you're shouting they got everything dance halls yeah they got telegraphs hey what you mean Big Boy sure they got cable [Applause] what's that Bin Laden with the white Fort we've been coming on this afternoon just one of them there little but nobody bothered bought that place ain't nothing there but trouble troubles my buddy Say Bo watch my door I ain't gonna be long okay it's rubber here I come foreign [Music] foreign [Music] Excellency the goods has come and I brought you a few samples first class just like I said they'd be now here's the figures 400 cash for the Lots Oh no I got the contract this time the contract he said 300 contract well that's just the blue and point you see uh here it says except for a hectagork within 300 miles and the next boat don't get here for two months ain't that a hectagon selfie [Music] where you get that track from on the beach where you come from come to make Trouble on My Island kill this wine the lock came up and swim when the first boat out [Music] I'll take this blue my off your end for you you're on it yeah five silver dollars for him Lock Stock and Barrel what do you say now is it a tribe good yeah wait a minute yeah bring them here I won't ever talk with him yeah that's all right he belongs to me yeah so that's what it gives me man I what they call them the states are bad right I kill that one with the lore on your Trail and the Bloomingdale is waiting for you on the next Corner what I'll be your white man I comes and I goes and that's my business oh that's the kind of a you are not afraid to stand right up to your Bitters and tell them what's water you wouldn't be afraid of a bit of a fight neither would you on our face is seven minutes and I don't never fight on no empty belly yeah well supposing your belly was full and you had a chance to get back at the stinking even what threw you out what would you say then now he's talking white man all right now you get your rum and your eats but you don't get a stinking Penny because I'm a trait I see I ain't no Bloom with missionary and if anybody worries you you just tell them you belong to Mr Smith I belongs to Mr Smith what's that Ginger tomato what's good what's that Virginia Ginger what's that coffee well this ain't regular but maybe the dice will do that it goes first to the gentleman with the Rolls-Royce all right talk to him Bo o what'd I say believe in the South leave us out Ada from Decatur big dick big dick oh shoot man don't you know I mean shoot all right the old file goes to the general with the Rolls Royce and all right get it in foreign natural let me have it boy now cracker what do you see this whole pile against that rules Royce the house is rolling now come on you Galloping dominoes come home to Papa and let her ride is the gentleman's point I'm on either from Nikita come on leave in the South baby the gentleman made his voice [Applause] better luck next Saturday night we play woman as women Brutus Jones is through well I'll see you boys next week look them over I'll see you later [Music] and I wonder what the Blazers is keeping that black hype [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah where do you think you're going well good morning Mr Smith you're working here well to tell you the truth Mr Smithers the boys back in the bush seems to like my methods am I speaking to open up a little training business next door here cut my bleeding stroke would you after all I've done for you too is that your idea of credit union well as always ready to listen to reason and while I'm unloading if I was to hear anybody say something about a partnership thank you nice big kind of chicken all ready for the juice ladies in the car with the Coconuts pineapples [Music] ready [Music] why don't you come in and pay your bill you know every time I rides up here through that jungle it gives me the creeps say you notice they shut the guides afterwards look at you white man is your nerves living on people why did you have to get such big blops yeah them is fine I bet you they knows a man when they seize one well if there's any troubles you want to get yourself to Blind calling him General and well now I told you Mr Smithers there's any trouble you just leave your general to me us understand each other get him Mr Smithers [Music] good night here Majesty whoever chop oh why a spinal body a man as ever I clap me peoples on hey what jokes yeah I'm well if I says it myself it's fitted him up and I reckons when you figure how little it's costing you makes you feel Mighty proud send in the Treasure Beast my treasure tell the gentleman a tooth now does you know how to figure yes you're fine now you see I got a figure produce the contract your bill Mr swivel yeah well uh here you are you're Excellency now then there was a hundred uniforms at five dollars that's a thousand dollars it was a hundred rifles at five dollars a thousand dollars one Cannon was 500 in the yemeni well it adds up to four thousand dollars yeah Excellency what does the treasure report it seems to me that there might be a little error let me have a look at it yes that we all make mistakes now yeah it is the mistake I've seen it all along it's five thousand dollars there he was Captain check that off and tell it to the boss [Applause] [Music] don't you all those eyes got a charm takes a silver bullet to kill Brutus Jones my turn now General company attention take this bushnigan Prime out of here oh now and wait then what I wants to stay will hear from me in an hour Smithers you wait I wants to confer with you well behind me if you ain't pulled it off you have got a nerve no no brain I calls it stinking luck having that Mission twice at 10 feet pick up that gun break it foreign got drunk in town last night and I takes care of his gun while he sleeps It Off well that's what I call brains this place smells more like a chain gang dumped in a palace say Smithers how you like the contract are doing this dump over now you're talking and don't make the mistake of thinking just dealing in ignorant Bush I gives you an audience tomorrow and bring along them fashion sheets that I get last summer and then I want some mirrors plenty of them and remember Smithers Red's my color I always had a special taste for raid Mr President King Brutus no somehow that don't make enough noise smell it cigarette late smells you have just had an audience with the emperor Jones [Music] thank you foreign [Music] what's that foot give me a drink [Music] Charles Miller season here [Music] clear all over here the amazing this morning I gotta remember what I told you when you slept that lost text on coffee that you were cutting your own Bloom and throat sure I remember whatever there was a riot down on the village last night and he had tax collector got beaten up so his old mother wouldn't know oh that's old stuff Muhammad's got them already and I'm gonna dress them down before the whole court this morning they all need to listen too late to give them unless you've got them squeezed dry look at you when I take this job what I told you I says three years for my cleanup sooner well he's got six months to go then's my Arrangement and I ain't gonna change oh you got your money the white side bye I sure had and it's banked in a foreign land where there ain't no chain gangs no Jim Crow and nobody can get it except me in six months I walked out on this circus and from then on I stop dough talk yard right look at your white man there's been stealing like you does and there's big Steel in like I did a little steal in the kitchen jail sooner or later put a big stealing there makes your Emperor and puts you in a Hall of Fame when you cross all I know is that it's a wise game but it knows when to quit let me hear white man you be kind still got these like that you think when I crash to whip they don't jump through all right I showed you I'll summon the coke foreign [Music] his majesty is on the throne I'm in the court you can touches of Manhattan foreign [Music] east and west and Mr Smith [Music] bring in the prisoners so you gonna get what takes it upon yourself to start a roughhouse and beat up an officer of the crown well I see I've been too easy on you oh I'm gonna show you who's boss around here lieutenant take them in the courtyard and give them 50 lashes apiece and lock them up I said lock him up [Music] yep take your company to the Five Mile Village and burn it off the face of the Earth everything [Music] [Music] who dare whistle that away in my flower when I wake up the emperor I'm gonna die and spray along some of you sure it was me we said yeah I got news for you oh it's you Mr Smith One news you've got to tell me where's all your cards the generals and the cabinet ministers and all right they must be run to the minute I close his eyes drinking rum talking big down the town how come you don't know that if you stop some of the most every day well I got you in my business I got your business blind me when you landed here you didn't have no iron Mighty ass thoughtful lightweight man oh parlay do you hear me I'm now is you forgetting it's over no I mean so what's up accept your apology when I was dead at one thing and what i is now is another I wasn't afraid to eye at that time after you broke jail on mistakes no you didn't have no excuse to look down on me for that you've been in jail yourself one once that's alive there's some things I ain't got to be told I can see him in folks his eyes from what I've been told that I'm safe for a black to kill a white man in the states you mean Legends scare me well I tell you Smithers maybe I does kill one white man back there maybe I do and maybe I accuse another right here along if you don't look out and I think I'd preach on you not me I'm your friend are you sure you is and you'd better be I'm gonna show you that I'm your friend I'll tell you that there's a news it must be Mighty bad news to the Happy way you look I ain't noticed any of the Servants of the Gods around the place this morning I ate but they're all out in the garden sleep none of the trees all I gotta do is the ring that gong and they come flying all right bring it now and you can see what I mean sure [Music] [Music] [Laughter] the rotten ship is sinking and the bloom and wretches slam their hooks slow flung Woods [Music] well I reckon over place my hand this one a man can't take the pot on a bobtail flush all the time was I saying I'd fit in six months more well I changed my mind then I cashed in and resigned the job of Emperor right this minute if I'm blaming you're a cool bird and no more no use fussing when I nose the game's up I kisses and goodbye without no long wait days old enough to the hills they say yes taking them every man Jacqueline then the revolution is at the post and the emperor better get his feet smoking up that tree at all thank you for your old they steals the horse's first thing well then I hoofs it see do your duty 3 30. Sundowns at 6 30 a day about oh I got plenty of time make it easy yeah why don't you be so blasted sure you'll have Castle to get through that foreign [Music] [Music] and I got tin grub hid there on a big white stone where I can find it Well I'll be at age of the forest by the time dark comes and wants in them Woods them will never find me though tomorrow I reaches the Coast and boards that French gunboat I got the laugh at these fools black trash around here it's so easy supposing something happens somebody does SNAP you oh he's got five lead bullets in this gun good enough for common Bush needed and after that I've got the Silver Bullet left to cheat him are they getting me I tell them when the time comes I killed myself with it that's because I'm the only man in the world big enough to get me then you add a silver bullet mide honest I sure did she be five lead bullets in this silver baby at the last I know you're scared to steal for me everybody to touch this baby she's my rabbit's foot I showed a charm eh I'm blaming you'll need all your blooming charms before long selfie um what's that drum beating for for you the blacks is having a war dance in the Years working up their courage before they start off here 11. they'll sure need it they're making all sorts of devil spells and charms against your silver bullet it takes more than to scare this chicken tonight when it's Pitch Black in the forest then we stand in the big devils and ghosts out and after you you'll find your blue and air I'll be standing on Envy tomorrow morning hmm it's a mighty clear place that Forest is even in daylight you don't know what might happen there it's that rotten still always sends the cold shivers down my back the minute I gets in it the go long way man here you ain't talking to this baby and what ghost in the heads got to do with me well don't you know as a member in good standard of the Baptist Church let them try to even tricks from the Baptist Church doesn't protect me land them all in hell yeah you ain't paid much easier Baptist Church down here taking up with them blooming witch doctors oh sure I pretend don't get me nothing to do missionary work for the Baptist Church it's after the coin and I laid my Legend on the Shelf kind of vehicle but I ain't got the time to waste no more food talk with you I'm going away from here so long white man in jail sometime thank you yeah you ain't going out this way I think I speak out the back door like a common I remember you later and the emperor don't lead the way he comes not yet these ways [Music] listen to that roll call with you must be a mighty big drum care that fall well if there ain't no old brass band this female I sure got the drum part of it it's a long way man [Music] give my regards to any ghosts you meet um [Music] well yeah in the nick of time too sure give me a check it out showing up that's so bimbridge up she ain't no training for a long hike over that plane in the bride and sun Bush I wonder they wouldn't get sick of beating that drone sound louder seemedly what if they stop left [Music] sure there's miles and miles behind what you getting fish in your [Music] bruh nothing but wind on your stomach cause your feels Diggity well we eat right here now White Stone White Stone wait I hear you know this was a white face lots of grub come to me it's you if I lost the plate there's another story [Music] and I got to go hungry in them Woods all in there can't tell nothing from them trees around you look like they were seated I lost a place sure enough Mighty queer Mighty queer what trying to put some over on me who the hell that what is it get away big boy [Music] he was holy little animal a little while pigs are wrecked then maybe rooted out you grew up and eat it oh what you think he is hence [Music] with the game away when you find a shot don't hear that for certain [Music] get in what you're scared at ain't nothing there but the trees get in the moon right did you hear that you get more light from this house your Seas where you squat Shiro now when you have to snap and that's a fact oh I've been making traction these years even like forever because I am a long night for you your majesty Majesty a much Majesty about this baby now never mind it's all a part of the game this night come to an end like everything else when you get there safe and have that bankroll in your hands do you laughs at all this ain't no ever [Music] on this Monday ring like mine [Music] this old hammer ring like silver say [Music] green lights [Music] shine like your poor what all the world is here [Music] that old she will gets near up in the south packing it along with him time for me to move what's another queer Clickety sound I hear sound like so I saw it some was shooting crap the time I've beat it quick when I get them noted is that you Jim yeah I'm sure I might be glad to see you told me them dead could I use you how you come to be here change it speak to me easier is your hand I killed you dead once as I got to kill you again you take it then [Music] gone anyway [Music] that shot picks him he's getting there [Music] fast and your eyes shooting shots let him know just where I is sorry I've got to run melting with you running and running and running now I can breathe and then get rid of them from the emperor's parents and I traveled later this road every kitchen I never remember these would be sure full of the queer things at night Lord God let me see no more you just get seen them please cause your belly's empty and you're sick with Hunger inside bless God I don't see no more in whatever days Mercy Lord Mercy [Music] yes sir yes my eyes coming yet sometime [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] seem like I've been here before oh [Music] [Laughter] did I do see my seems like I know that stone from them trees and the river remember excuse me I've been here before oh oh God it's long I done wrong I know this sounds wrong angles and I'm sorry forgive me Lord forgive me foreign [Music] [Music] while I live in my Lord delivers [Music] you don't protect this sinner in unsaved this in the Lord I've done repent oh Lord I've been repent and I'm coming through the Lord oh Lord no yes [Music] thank you oh my God [Music] the mercy Lord Mercy [Music] Lord hear my prayer [Music] you don't give me yet [Music] I bet he's miles away been I want to stay for the coast I told you you'd lose him didn't I mean you're silly Drummond caused in your stinking spells climate what a pack we caught him you see why don't you go in the woods and Under Armor what's the good and white we got you um foreign [Music] I cook money make silver bullet make strong charm too yeah [Music] uh [Music] they did for you right enough data they're having where's all your iron Mighty ears now your zooming Majesty silver bullets anyhow just died in the eyes of stone foreign [Music]