The Cantor's Son

Summary 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. View more details

The Cantor's Son

Directed : Sidney M. Goldin Ilya Motyleff

Written : Mark Schweid Louis Freiman

Stars : Moyshe Oysher Florence Weiss Judith Abarbanel Michael Rosenberg

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Genres : Drama Musical

Release date : Dec 25, 1937

Countries of origin : United States

Language : Yiddish

Production companies : Eron Pictures

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama Musical

Release date : Dec 25, 1937

Countries of origin : United States

Language : Yiddish

Production companies : Eron Pictures

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