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Things are looking up in this week's Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, for which we watched\xa0Big Fella\xa0(directed by J. Elder Willis), in which Robeson is a dockworker who becomes involved in the search for a kidnapped rich kid, and\xa0King Solomon's Mines\xa0(directed by Robert Stevenson), the first film adaptation of the H. Rider Haggard colonial adventure epic. We make our arguments for\xa0Big Fella\xa0as an anti-Shirley Temple movie that both accomplishes\xa0and subverts its genre goals and for\xa0King Solomon's Mines'\xa0Verhoevening of its reactionary source material.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 25s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 BIG FELLA (1937) [dir. J. Elder Willis]

0h 28m 30s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 KING SOLOMON\u2019S MINES [dir. Robert Stevenson]

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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project \u2013 a discussion of Late Spring

* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

* Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of\xa0The Internet Archive)

* Read Elise\u2019s piece on Gangs of New York \u2013 \u201cMaking America Strange Again\u201d

* Check out Dave\u2019s Robert Benchley blog \u2013 an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist\u2019s 2000+ pieces as he can locate \u2013 Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!\xa0

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