TY - GEN N2 - The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections. AB - The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections. T1 - The jazz singer DA - c2007. CY - Burbank, CA : AU - Crosland, Alan, AU - Cohn, Alfred A. AU - Jolson, Al, AU - McAvoy, May, AU - Oland, Warner, AU - Besserer, Eugenie, AU - Lederer, Otto, AU - Mohr, Hal, AU - McCord, Harold, AU - Silvers, Louis, AU - Raphaelson, Samson, ET - Three-disc deluxe ed.; 80th anniversary ed.; standard format (1.33:1). CN - PN1997 CN - PN1997 PB - Warner Home Video, PP - Burbank, CA : LA - eng LA - In English; with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles. LA - Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. PY - c2007. N1 - Based on the play: Day of atonement / by Samson Raphaelson. N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927. N1 - Special features (disc 1, 139 min.): optional audio commentary by Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Projects) and Nighthawks Bandleader Vince Giordano; 4 vintage Al Jolson short films (49 min. total); classic cartoon "I love to singa" (8 min.); Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The jazz singer", also starring Jolson (1947, 58 min.); Jolson trailer gallery (24 min. total). N1 - Special features (disc 2, 185 min.): "The dawn of sound : how the movies learned to talk" documentary (2007, 85 min.); surviving excerpts from 1929's "Gold diggers of Broadway" (16 min. total); 5 studio shorts from or celebrating the early sound era (84 min.). N1 - Special features (disc 3, 208 min.): rare & historic Vitaphone shorts from the Warner Bros. vaults. ID - 329425 KW - Jazz musicians KW - Jewish singers KW - Fathers and sons SN - 1419856227 SN - 9781419856228 TI - The jazz singer ER -