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Name: The Jazz Singer
Released: 1927-10-6
Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Eugenie Besserer, Warner Oland, Otto Lederer

The Jazz Singer

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1h 29m
1927

78%

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Son of a Jewish Cantor Jakie Rabinowitz (Jolson) is expected to follow the calling of his father and his father before him to serve his faith and his community. Although born with the gift to move people with his voice, Rabinowitz yearns to serve an even greater audience as an entertainer, as The Jazz Singer. Based on the play and on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Samson Raphaelson. Honorary Academy Award as the pioneer outstanding talking picture, revolutionizing the film industry.

Director:

Alan Crosland

Writer:

Alfred A. Cohn, Jack Jarmuth

Cast:

Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Eugenie Besserer, Warner Oland, Otto Lederer, Bobby Gordon, Richard Tucker, Joseff Rosenblatt, William Demarest, Myrna Loy

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

78%

Reviews

Chicago Daily News

Carl Sandburg

Eugenie Besserer gives one of her inimitable impersonations, and May McAvoy is charming as always as the girl who takes an interest in the jazz singer and helps him along in his career.

The first sound film! One wishes that the 100,000th sound, movie ever made 'we are at least somewhere near that figure!) had such an. effective track.

Sitting through The Jazz Singer is very much like attending a very ordinary musical comedy with one star who happens to be good. The star cannot always be on the scene and the evening develops into a series of long waits.

It is probably one of the greatest events in the world of entertainment in years.

February 25, 2021

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San Francisco Examiner

Edgar Waite

The Jazz Singer is unlike any picture seen here in the past... instead of contenting itself to be a mere motion picture, it introduces the Vitaphone in the role to which it surely must be destined that of giving life to the silent drama.

February 25, 2021

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