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.
Paul Robeson
as Joe
Elisabeth Welch
as Amanda 'Manda'
Roy Emerton
as Spike
James Hayter
as Chuck
Lawrence Brown
as Corney
Eldon Gorst
as Gerald Oliphant
Marcelle Rogez
as Marietta
Eric Cowley
as Ferdy Oliphant
Joyce Kennedy
as Mrs. Oliphant
Margaret Rutherford
as Nanny (uncredited)
