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.

• Beaconsfield Productions
• British Lion Films
• Paul Robeson
• Elisabeth Welch
• Roy Emerton
• James Hayter
• Lawrence Brown
• Eldon Gorst
• Marcelle Rogez
• Eric Cowley