Isidore Cashier Trailers
The Jewish Melody TrailerThe Light Ahead TrailerThe Cantor's Son Trailer
Total trailers found: 6
01 June 1939
The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers.
16 February 1926
A Jewish writer in Czarist Russia is forced to flee when the government comes after him for his "objectionable" writings.
01 January 1940
The classic conflict between the traditional Jewish way of life, and the modern life of the 20th century comes alive in this story of a young cantor who brings home a future bride, when he has already been betrothed by his parents to someone else!
25 September 1931
When handsome actor Eddie Wien decides to marry, his uncle Oscar Stein warns that all women are frivolous and selfish, only on the lookout for a fat pocketbook.
01 January 1937
Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema.
26 December 1937
This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer.