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Description: PAUL ROBESON, DUDLEY DIGGES, FRANK WILSON, FREDI WASHINGTON, RUBY ELZY, GEORGE STAMPE. DIRECTED BY DUDLEY MURPHJY. BRUTUS JONES, A PRISON ESCAPEE WHO SETS HIMSELF UP AS THE PETTY DESPOT OF A SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND. A PULLMAN PORTER FROM THE BACKWOODS, STRONG, HANDSOME, AMBITIOUS, AND A DEVOUT CHURCHGOER, WHO GIVES HIMSELF OVER TO A NEW FOUND WORLD OF FAST MONEY & LOOSE WOMAN. HE ENDS UP ON A CHAIN GANG FOR MURDER, BUT MANAGES TO ESCAPE WHILE KILLING A WARDER. JONES MAKES HIS WAY TO A CARIBBEAN ISLAND WHERE, WITH HELP FROM THE CORRUPT BRITISHER SMITHERS, HE BECOMES THE RULER. HIS SINS EVENTUALLY CATCH UP WITH HIM, AND HE DIES, AS SMITHERS REMARKS, "IN THE HEIGHT OF STYLE."

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