The Cantor's Son (1937)
Synopsis
This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.
Release Date: 1937-12-26
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Ilya Motyleff
Top Cast
- Moyshe Oysher as Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
- Florence Weiss as Helen
- Judith Abarbanel as Rivke
- Michael Rosenberg as Yossel Lutchik
- Juda Bleich as Cantor Zanvel Reichman
- Bertha Guttenberg as Malke Reichman
- Isidore Cashier as W.H. Rosovitch
- Vicki Marcus as Saul as a young boy
- Lorraine Abarbanal as Rivke as a young girl
- Daniel Makarenko as
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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