Big Fella (1938)
1h 14m
Running Time
January 3, 1938Release Date

Plot.
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 & Crew.

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

Joyce Kennedy
Mrs. Oliphant

Margaret Rutherford
Nanny (uncredited)

J. Elder Wills
Director / Producer / Art Direction

Dino Galvani
Police Inspector

H. A. R. Thomson
Camera Operator

Fenn Sherie
Writer

A.W. Osborne
Production Supervisor
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
runaway
musical
racism
rich kid
runaway child
dockworker
low budget
race film
Wiki.
Big Fella is a 1937 British musical drama film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch and Roy Emerton. It is loosely based on the novel Banjo by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay.
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