Motel the Operator Trailer

Motel the Operator Trailer (1940)

15 January 1940 Drama 88 mins

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.

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Cast

Chaim Tauber

as Motel Friedman

Malvina Rappel

as Esther Friedman

Maurice Kroner

as Benjamin Rosenwald

Berthe Hart

as Rebecca Rosenwald

Seymour Rechtzeit

as Jack Rosenwald

Jacob Zanger

as Jacob 'Joseph' Frumkin

Yetta Zwerling

as Chane Belle 'Annabella' Frumkin

Gertrude Krause

as Ruth Frumkin

Herman Rosen

as Doctor

Seymour Rechzeit

as Jacob 'Jack' Rosenwald

Maurice Krohner

as Benjamin Rosenwald

Crew

F. Allstadt

F. Allstadt Art Direction

Herman Rosen

Herman Rosen Assistant Director

Don Malkames

Don Malkames Director of Photography

Charles Levine

Charles Levine Director of Photography

Sholom Secunda

Original Music Composer

Chaim Tauber

Chaim Tauber Theatre Play

International Titles

Motl the Operator Trailer

International Releases Dates

United States 15 January 1940

Production Companies

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