The Cantor's Son

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.

Directors: Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin.

Casts

	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 as
	Irving Honigman as Ben, club manager
	Rose Wallerstein as Clara, Helen's roommate

Crew