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Oct 23, 2022 · Uncle Moses (1932) Full Movie. 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 ...
- 83 min
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- Jamila Mikhail
When poverty and persecution compel his Polish landsmen to leave their shtetl, "Uncle" Moses, the crude and lusty former butcher, welcomes them to the promised land of his Lower East Side clothing factory.
Uncle Moses ★★½ 1932. The clash of oldworld values and newworld culture in a story of East European Jewish immigrants transplanted to turn of the century New York's Lower East Side. Patriarch Uncle Moses struggles to keep traditional family values as romantic difficulties and labor union struggles intrude. Based on the novel by Sholem Asch.
Dec 12, 1992 · Uncle Moses: Directed by Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto. With Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel, Mark Schweid, Sam Gertler. 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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto
- 1992-12-12
A master in the harsh new American system, with its fourteen-hour workday, Moses attempts to reconstruct the lost harmony of the shtetl community in the paternalistic order of his sweatshop. He uses his wealth to show off and leaves the daily operations to his nephew Sam.
Uncle Moses is a harsh man who uses his wealth and power to fight against unionization of his shop (by a young idealistic Jew) and manipulate women, especially the daughters of his workers." – J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds.
"Uncle" Moses is a wealthy garment store owner in the Lower East Side. He lords his wealth and its attendant power over the neighborhood, dispensing noblesse oblige and conducting casual affairs with numerous women.
