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The Cantor's Son

Dec 26, 1937 · 1h 30m
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Drama
Music

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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.

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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
Directed by Ilya Motyleff

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
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Country
US
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