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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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.5/10 | |
Released: | December 26, 1937 | |
Runtime: | 90 min | |
Genres: | Drama Musical | |
Companies: | Eros Entertainment | |
Cast: | Michael Rosenberg Moyshe Oysher Judith Abarbanel Florence Weiss | |
Crew: | Sidney M. Goldin Mark Schweid Louis Freiman Ilya Motyleff | |
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