The Cantor's Son (1937)
1937 · 1h 30m · Drama, Music
Genres: Drama, Music
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.
Director: Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
Cast
Moyshe Oysher as Saul 'Shloimele' ReichmanFlorence Weiss as HelenJudith Abarbanel as RivkeMichael Rosenberg as Yossel LutchikJuda Bleich as Cantor Zanvel ReichmanBertha Guttenberg as Malke ReichmanIsidore Cashier as W.H. RosovitchVicki Marcus as Saul as a young boyLorraine Abarbanal as Rivke as a young girlDaniel MakarenkoIrving Honigman as Ben, club managerRose Wallerstein as Clara, Helen's roommateMore like this
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