Big Fella

1h 14m
MusicDrama
7

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
Elisabeth Welch
Amanda 'Manda'
Roy Emerton
Spike
James Hayter
Chuck
Lawrence Brown
Corney
Eldon Gorst
Gerald Oliphant
Marcelle Rogez
Marietta
Eric Cowley
Ferdy Oliphant
Joyce Kennedy
Mrs. Oliphant
Margaret Rutherford
Nanny (uncredited)

Crew

J. Elder Wills
Director, Producer, Art Direction
Fenn Sherie
Writer
Ingram D'Abbes
Writer
Claude McKay
Novel
Brereton Porter
Editor
Douglas Robertson
Editor
Cyril Bristow
Cinematography
Arthur Alcott
Assistant Director
A.W. Osborne
Production Supervisor
Henry Passmore
Producer
H. A. R. Thomson
Camera Operator
George Stretton
Camera Operator
Harold V. King
Sound Engineer
Eric Ansell
Original Music Composer
Jack Beaver
Additional Music

Recommendations

view all
Annie
Annie
Boychoir
I Can Only Imagine
Unsung Hero
Tom Sawyer
The Jazz Singer
Honeydripper
A Week Away
Be Somebody
Another Cinderella Story
Sneakerella
I Still Believe
Yentl
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
UglyDolls
Anchors Aweigh
The Big Store
Curly Top
Sunshine on Leith