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Big Fella

70
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1h 14m
Drama, Music
Starring Paul Robeson · Elisabeth Welch · Roy Emerton
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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.

Director
J. Elder Wills
Producers
J. Elder Wills, Henry Passmore
Music
Eric Ansell
Studio
Beaconsfield Productions, British Lion Films
Keywords
runaway musical racism rich kid runaway child dockworker low budget race film
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Cast

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Paul Robeson
Joe
E
Elisabeth Welch
Amanda 'Manda'
R
Roy Emerton
Spike
J
James Hayter
Chuck
E
Eldon Gorst
Gerald Oliphant
M
Marcelle Rogez
Marietta
E
Eric Cowley
Ferdy Oliphant
J
Joyce Kennedy
Mrs. Oliphant
M
Margaret Rutherford
Nanny (uncredited)

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