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Big Fella

Name: Big Fella
Director: J. Elder Wills
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1938-01-03
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown

1938 · 1h 14m · Music, Drama

Skip it. This 1937 British musical drama sounds like musty period filler—a contrived plot about finding a runaway heir that exists mainly as scaffolding for songs. Without strong reviews to elevate it or a compelling reason to revisit it today, there's no reason to spend your evening here when better dramas and musicals are waiting.

Plot

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.

Director: J. Elder Wills

Cast: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown

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