Big Fella (1938)
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.
- Date of release
- 1938-01-03
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- J. Elder Wills
Casting
- Paul Robeson — Joe
- Elisabeth Welch — Amanda 'Manda'
- Roy Emerton — Spike
- James Hayter — Chuck
- Lawrence Brown — Corney
- Eldon Gorst — Gerald Oliphant
- Marcelle Rogez — Marietta
- Eric Cowley — Ferdy Oliphant
- Joyce Kennedy — Mrs. Oliphant
- Margaret Rutherford — Nanny (uncredited)
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