Big Fella (1937)

Starring:

• Paul Robeson
• Elisabeth Welch
• Roy Emerton
• James Hayter
• Lawrence Brown
• Eldon Gorst
• Marcelle Rogez
• Eric Cowley
• Joyce Kennedy

Storyline

Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles dockworker who is asked by police to help find a young boy missing from an ocean liner. When Joe finally discovers the child (Eldon Grant), he learns that the boy escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local cafe singer, Miranda (Elisabeth Welch). Joe and Miranda become surrogate parents to the boy, offering a welcome change from his wealthy -- and somewhat repressed -- white parents.