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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.
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Preview Clip: Big Fella (1937, Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, Eldon Gorst)
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- Jan 3, 1938
- 1h 14m
- English
- J. Elder Wills
- Fenn Sherie, Ingram D'Abbes, Claude McKay
- Released
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Beaconsfield ProductionsBritish Lion Films
