Desc: Big Fella: Directed by J. Elder Wills. With Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter. In this musical comedy, Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles docker hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son. When Joe finds him, he learns he escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local singer. They offer him a refuge from his repressed white parents.