The Cantor's Son

Name: The Cantor's Son
Released: 1937
Rating: 34.32
Cast: Vicki Marcus, Isidore Cashier, Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Judith Abarbanel

1937

Drama, Musical

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. (imdb)

The Cantor's Son

1937

Drama, Musical

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Rated 04 Oct 2015

The Cantor's Son (1937) is a Jewish musical, which reminds a little about The Jazz Singer (1927), but with a more uplifting story, unless you are the Euro-Jew's American wife. The ambiance feels very rooted in it's Yiddish culture with powerful songs booming over the picture. Becomes a heavy version of those light musicals Hollywood was making in the same time period. Doesn't really work for me apart from a few tones hitting the mark.

Rated 04 Oct 2015

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