The Cantor's Son

Release Date: 1937-12-26

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

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