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The Cantor's Son (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.
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Production Companies: Eron Pictures
Country: United States
Languages:
Yiddish
Runtime: 90 min.
Released: Dec. 26, 1937
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 7+
