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Big Fella

Big Fella

J. Elder Wills

1938

  • Music
  • Drama
7.3

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 & crew

  • J. Elder WillsDirector
  • Paul RobesonJoe
  • Elisabeth WelchAmanda 'Manda'
  • Roy EmertonSpike
  • James HayterChuck
  • Lawrence BrownCorney
  • Eldon GorstGerald Oliphant
  • Marcelle RogezMarietta
  • Eric CowleyFerdy Oliphant

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