Film
Big Fella
1938 · 1h 14m · Music · Drama
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Overview
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.
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Cast
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)
Crew
- J. Elder WillsDirector · Producer
- Fenn SherieWriter
- Ingram D'AbbesWriter
- Claude McKayNovel
- Henry PassmoreProducer
- Eric AnsellOriginal Music Composer
- Brereton PorterEditor
- Douglas RobertsonEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 3, 1938
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rated
- U
- Genres
- Music, Drama
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