- BFI identifier45742
- Date1936-08-17 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisMusical drama. A man of African origin who is working in London as a docker becomes a well-known opera singer. He is astonished to find he is actually the descendant of an African queen, and resolves to return to his native country to save the inhabitants from the corrupt rule of a group of unscrupulous witch doctors. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: J. Elder Wills
A Hammer Production: Hammer Productions
A British Lion Picture: British Lion Film Corporation
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Title
Song of Freedom (Original)
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- Scripts / DocumentsDocument: report - Claude Wallace; Dorothy Holloway - BBFC-1-5-543
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Work - 45742 - 1936-08-17 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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