The Cantor's Son (1937)

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.

Date of release
1937-12-26
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin

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