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Big Fella (1938)

Big Fella (1938)

Drama Music
Release Date: 1938, January 3
Directors: J. Elder Wills
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Beaconsfield Productions, Beaconsfield Productions, British Lion Films, British Lion Films
Cast: James Hayter, Lawrence Brown, Paul Robeson, Joyce Kennedy, Elisabeth Welch, Margaret Rutherford, Eldon Gorst, Roy Emerton, Marcelle Rogez, Eric Cowley

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

musical racism low budget runaway runaway child rich kid dockworker race film