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

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Elisabeth Welch

Amanda 'Manda'

Roy Emerton

Spike

James Hayter

Chuck

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Lawrence Brown

Corney

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Eldon Gorst

Gerald Oliphant

Marcelle Rogez

Marietta

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Eric Cowley

Ferdy Oliphant

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Joyce Kennedy

Mrs. Oliphant

Margaret Rutherford

Nanny (uncredited)