The Cantor's Son

The Cantor's Son

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 26, 1937

Runtime

1h 30m

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Cantor's Son

Director

Ilya Motyleff

Description

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.