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Dudley Murphy\\u2019s adaptation of this Eugene O\\u2019Neill picaresque play follows the tumultuous rise of Pullman porter Brutus Jones, played by the peerless Paul Robeson. We are taken through musically-punctuated examples of the early twentieth-century African American experience until Jones\\u2019 ambition and hubris drive him to become the despot of a Caribbean island.

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If you\\u2019d like to watch ahead for next week\\u2019s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roger Vadim\\u2019s And God Created Woman (1956).