Big Fella

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.

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)