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Motel the Operator
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.
Genre: Drama
Release: Jan 15, 1940
Crew: Murray Dichter (Sound), Joseph Seiden (Director), Herman Rosen (Assistant Director), F. Allstadt (Art Direction), Paul Jacobs (Sound), Don Malkames (Director of Photography)
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Studio: Cinema Service Corp.
Keyword: strike, yiddish language
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