The Cantor's Son
1 hour 30 minutes1937-12-26
6.0
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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.
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

Lorraine Abarbanal
Rivke as a young girl

Daniel Makarenko

Irving Honigman
Ben, club manager
