Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.
Acting
Maurice Schwartz chews scenery like it's his last meal.
Production
Rare surviving Yiddish cinema — history preserved on nitrate.
Director
Sidney M. Goldin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Yiddish cinema's golden age when immigrant audiences packed theaters for stories in their own language.
Based on a hit play by Sholom Aleichem — yes, the Fiddler on the Roof guy — who loved exposing the moral rot of 'respectable' Jewish capitalism.
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