The Cantor's Son (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: US
- Producer: Ilya Motyleff , Sidney M. Goldin
- Release date: 12/26/1937
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie 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.