Learning on ScreenThe Emperor Jones
- Summary
- 1958 ABC Television production for ITV of The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill.
- Theatre play
- The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 30 March 1958
- Time
- 9.30-10.50pm
- Series
- Armchair Theatre
- Channel
- ITV
- Production company
- ABC Television (1955-1968)
Credits
- Producer
- William Kotcheff
- Playwright
- Eugene O’Neill
- Adapted for Television by
- Terry Southern
- Designer
- Timothy O’Brien
- Choreographer
- Boscoe Holder
- Dancer
- David Biraza
- Dancer
- Cleo Dupont
- Dancer
- Harold Holness
- Dancer
- Bari Johnson
- Dancer
- Rita Lester
- Dancer
- Raymond McClean
- Dancer
- Jimmy Moore
- Dancer
- Chief Odongo
- Dancer
- Bill Patterson
- Advisor
- W. H. Nichols
- Advisor
- A. Oldham
- Executive Producer
- Dennis Vance
- Cast
Frank Blaine Prison Guard Van Boolen Auctioneer Harry H. Corbett Smithers Astley Harvey Cool Charlie Rashidi Onikovi Lem Stan Simmons Prison Guard Connie Smith Old Woman Kenneth Spencer Brutus Jones
Additional details
- Notes
- Cast and credits as published in the RT are here supplemented from the end credits of the recording.
- Play tags
- American drama; crime; race relations; West Indies, as theme or setting
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Emperor Jones (ITV, 1958)
- Archive
- BFI Research Viewing Service [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- From Edward Albee to Tennessee Williams: American Drama on the British Small Screen (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Amanda Wrigley (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/american-drama, published 20 June 2014
- Title
- The Armchair Theatre: How to Write, Design, Direct, Act and Enjoy Television Plays (Book)
- Reference
- London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959
- Linking notes
- pp. 108-9
- Title
- TV Times, 28 March 1958 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, p. 20; listing, p. 25
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