Big Fella

Directed by J. Elder Wills
1937    74m[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Musical](/on-demand/category/musical)
5.97.3
In this musical comedy, Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles docker hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son. When Joe finds him, he learns he escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local singer. They offer him a refuge from his repressed white parents.

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Cast of Big Fella

  • Paul RobesonJoe
  • Elisabeth WelchAmanda 'Manda'
  • Roy EmertonSpike
  • James HayterChuck
  • Lawrence BrownCorney
  • Eldon GorstGerald Oliphant
  • Marcelle RogezMarietta
  • Eric CowleyFerdy Oliphant
  • Joyce KennedyMrs. Oliphant
  • Margaret RutherfordNanny (uncredited)
  • J. Elder WillsDirector / Producer / Art Direction
  • Fenn SherieWriter
  • Claude McKayNovel
  • Ingram D'AbbesWriter
  • Henry PassmoreProducer
  • Arthur AlcottAssistant Director
  • Brereton PorterEditor
  • Douglas RobertsonEditor
  • Harold V. KingSound Engineer
  • Eric AnsellOriginal Music Composer

 

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