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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