Big Fella

Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns Gerald escaped of his own will and takes him to stay with a local singer, who offers a refuge from his repressed white parents.

• Release date
• January 3, 1938
• Runtime
• 74 min
• Genres
• Music, Drama
• Director
• J. Elder Wills

Cast

Paul Robeson Joe

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Elisabeth Welch Amanda 'Manda' Roy Emerton Spike James Hayter Chuck

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Lawrence Brown Corney

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Eldon Gorst Gerald Oliphant Marcelle Rogez Marietta

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Eric Cowley Ferdy Oliphant