The Cantor's Son

The Cantor's Son

Dec. 26, 1937

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.

The Cantor's Son

Dec. 26, 1937

The Cantor's Son
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.
Producers
Original title The Cantor's Son
Directors Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin
Writers

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

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

Irving Honigman

as Ben, club manager

Rose Wallerstein

as Clara, Helen's roommate