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The Cantor's Son

7.01937DramaMusic

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.

Release1937-12-26
Runtime90 min
StatusReleased
Original languageEN
SpokenYiddish
DirectorIlya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
Votes2
Popularity1
TMDB ID362463

Cast

Moyshe Oysher

Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman

Florence Weiss

Helen

Judith Abarbanel

Rivke

Michael Rosenberg

Yossel Lutchik

Juda Bleich

Cantor Zanvel Reichman

Bertha Guttenberg

Malke Reichman

Isidore Cashier

W.H. Rosovitch

Vicki Marcus

Saul as a young boy

Lorraine Abarbanal

Rivke as a young girl

Daniel Makarenko

Irving Honigman

Ben, club manager

Rose Wallerstein

Clara, Helen's roommate

Director

Ilya Motyleff

Director

Sidney M. Goldin

Director

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