The Jazz Singer (1952)

Cast: Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz, Mildred Dunnock, Alex Gerry, Allyn Joslyn, Tom Tully, Harold Gordon

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writer: Lewis Meltzer, Frank Davis, Leonard B. Stern

Director Of Photography: Carl E. Guthrie

Running Time: 107 min.

Synopsis: As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.