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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Runtime : 90 mins
Release Date : 1937-12-26
(Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman)
(Helen)
(Rivke)
(Yossel Lutchik)
(Cantor Zanvel Reichman)
(Malke Reichman)
(W.H. Rosovitch)
(Saul as a young boy)
(Rivke as a young girl)
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(Ben, club manager)
(Clara, Helen's roommate)