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.
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Setting
Set in France
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Music
Music by George H. Clutsam
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Cyril Bristow and George Stretton
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Fenn SherieWriter
- Ingram D'AbbesWriter
- Claude McKayNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 3, 1938
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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