The Cantor's Son

7.0 1937 90 min
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 Sid…

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Directors
Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin

Cast

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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
Lorraine Abarbanal Rivke as a young girl
Daniel Makarenko
Irving Honigman Ben, club manager
Rose Wallerstein Clara, Helen's roommate

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