The Cantor's Son (1937)
90 min
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.
- Release date
- December 26, 1937
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Cast
- Moyshe Oysher as Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
- Florence Weiss as Helen
- Judith Abarbanel as Rivke
- Michael Rosenberg as Yossel Lutchik
- Juda Bleich as Cantor Zanvel Reichman
- Bertha Guttenberg as Malke Reichman
- Isidore Cashier as W.H. Rosovitch
- Vicki Marcus as Saul as a young boy
- Lorraine Abarbanal as Rivke as a young girl
- Daniel Makarenko
Crew
- Ilya Motyleff · Director
- Louis Freiman · Writer
- Mark Schweid · Writer
- Arthur Block · Producer
- Samuel Segal · Producer
- Aleksandr Olshanetsky · Composer
- Frank Zucker · Cinematographer
- Leonard Weiss · Editor