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The Cantor's Son (1937)
Directed by Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
Drama, Music · 1h 30m
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.
Cast
M
Moyshe Oysher
Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
F
Florence Weiss
Helen
J
Judith Abarbanel
Rivke
M
Michael Rosenberg
Yossel Lutchik
J
Juda Bleich
Cantor Zanvel Reichman
B
Bertha Guttenberg
Malke Reichman
I
Isidore Cashier
W.H. Rosovitch
V
Vicki Marcus
Saul as a young boy
L
Lorraine Abarbanal
Rivke as a young girl
D
Daniel Makarenko
I
Irving Honigman
Ben, club manager
R
Rose Wallerstein
Clara, Helen's roommate
Crew
- Director
- Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
Details
- Release date
- 1937-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Yiddish