Big Fella
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.
From the archive
A wealthy young boy (Eldon Gorst) who willingly deserts his parents from a luxury ocean liner serves as the catalyst in this rollicking musical highlighting the vocal talents of Paul Robeson.
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Big Fella (1938) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- J. Elder Wills
- Starring
- Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown, Eldon Gorst, Marcelle Rogez, Eric Cowley
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