Big Fella (1938)

Name: Big Fella
Director: J. Elder Wills
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1938-01-03
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown

19381h 14mMusicDrama

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 RobesonJoe
EElisabeth WelchAmanda 'Manda'
Roy EmertonSpike
James HayterChuck
LLawrence BrownCorney
EEldon GorstGerald Oliphant
Marcelle RogezMarietta
EEric CowleyFerdy Oliphant
JJoyce KennedyMrs. Oliphant
Margaret RutherfordNanny (uncredited)

Crew

Director: J. Elder Wills
Writers: Fenn Sherie Ingram D'Abbes
Producers: Henry Passmore J. Elder Wills
Music: Eric Ansell
Editing: Brereton Porter Douglas Robertson

Details

Released: January 3, 1938
Language: English
Studio: Beaconsfield Productions, British Lion Films
IMDb: tt0028629