The Cantor's Son
1937This 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.
Acted in
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
Irving Honigman
as Ben, club manager
Rose Wallerstein
as Clara, Helen's roommate