The Cantor's Son

1h 30min

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

Moyshe Oysher

Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg

Yossel Lutchik
Juda Bleich

Juda Bleich

Cantor Zanvel Reichman
Bertha Guttenberg

Bertha Guttenberg

Malke Reichman
Isidore Cashier

Isidore Cashier

W.H. Rosovitch
Vicki Marcus

Vicki Marcus

Saul as a young boy
Lorraine Abarbanal

Lorraine Abarbanal

Rivke as a young girl
Irving Honigman

Irving Honigman

Ben, club manager
Rose Wallerstein

Rose Wallerstein

Clara, Helen's roommate

Release date

26th Dec 1937

Status

Released

Spoken languages