Motel the Operator

1940
6| 1h28m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 15 January 1940 Released
Producted By: Cinema Service Corp.
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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

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Cast

Director

Joseph Seiden

Production Companies

Cinema Service Corp.

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Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.