Big Fella

Name: Big Fella
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1938-01-03
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown

Big Fella (1938)

1:14 (74 min)

Music, Drama

United Kingdom

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Production

Beaconsfield Productions, British Lion Films

Release date

3 January 1938

Director

J. Elder Wills

Scenario

Claude McKay

Author

Composer

Eric Ansell

Producer

J. Elder Wills

All team (15)

Actors

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

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Short description

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.