Big Fella (1938)

7.3/10 74 min Music Drama

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.

Cast

Paul Robeson

Joe

Roy Emerton

Spike

James Hayter

Chuck

Marcelle Rogez

Marietta

Margaret Rutherford

Nanny (uncredited)

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