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The Jazz Singer

1980, Movie, PG, 115 mins

The Jazz Singer: Review

The third and, one hopes, final remake of THE JAZZ SINGER is the least interesting attempt so far, its music forgettable. Neil Diamond (who even reverts to Al Jolson's blackface for one sequence) is wholly unbelievable as the cantor's son who forsakes the synagogue for the bright lights of pop music in this $15-million bomb, which failed to generate box-office interest. Laurence Olivier doesn't help the proceedings by overplaying his role as the cantor and using the histrion... read more

The Jazz Singer: Cast & Details

Year: 1980
Rated PG

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Cast
Neil Diamond: Jess Robin
Laurence Olivier: Cantor Rabinovitch
Lucie Arnaz: Molly Bell
Catlin Adams: Rivka Rabinovitch
Franklyn Ajaye: Bubba
Paul Nicholas: Keith Lennox

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The Jazz Singer: TV Guide News

Was 1929's The Jazz Singer ... | Movie News | 1/19/2006
Question: Was 1929's The Jazz Singer really the first movie with sound? Answer: "First" is always a dangerous word: It needs a lot of qualifiers. By consensus, The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length "talkie," though only about a quarter of the film had dialogue or musical sequences that were integral to the plot (as opposed to a musical score that accompanies the action). It was not the first feature film with synchronized sound; that's generally acknowledged to have been the John Barrymore picture Don Juan (1926), which had both a synchronized score and sound effects, but no dialogue. And The Jazz Singer certainly wasn't the first film with dialogue throughout — that credit generally goes to the gangster movie Lights of read more
I have been searching for the ... | Movie News | 10/6/2005
Question: I have been searching for the movie The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond, but all the videos for sale on eBay require you to have a player that can read European videos.Answer: It's serendipitous that you should have asked this question less than a week after the new 25th-anniversary edition DVD of The Jazz Singer (1980) crossed my desk. It streets in October from Anchor Bay Entertainment. I'm hoping that the fact that you mentioned video doesn't mean you don't have a DVD player; if so, I hate to be the one to break the word, but video is a dying technology, at least as far as the home market for commercial films is concerned. read more

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