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The Cantor's Son

6 average rating
6
Yiddish / 90 MIN. / 1937

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Moyshe OysherFlorence WeissJudith AbarbanelMichael RosenbergJuda BleichBertha GuttenbergIsidore CashierVicki MarcusLorraine AbarbanalDaniel MakarenkoIrving HonigmanRose Wallerstein

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