J. Elder Wills

Song of Freedom

J. Elder Wills

Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch

John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.

Everything in Life

J. Elder Wills

Gitta Alpar, Neil Hamilton

An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.

Tiger Bay

J. Elder Wills

Anna May Wong, Henry Victor

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.

Big Fella

J. Elder Wills

Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch

Joe, a Marseilles docker, is 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.

Sporting Love

J. Elder Wills

Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff

Farce of two brothers in a continual trough of financial depression.

The Limejuice Mystery or, Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge?

Jack Harrison, J. Elder Wills

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges Tong assassins in order to rescue a woman.