The Cantor's Son 1937
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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.
- Released: 1937-12-26
- Runtime: 90 minutes
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- Stars: Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Judith Abarbanel, Michael Rosenberg, Juda Bleich
- Director: Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
