The Singing Blacksmith's Moishe Oysher (see below) here portrays acantor who faces a rather different sort of "B" temptation-Beethovenand Bach, the world of Gentile music. Leaving his family for Warsaw and theopera, he is drawn by the attentions of a countess (Helen Beverly) before tragedybrings him back to the Vilna synagogue he had deserted, to sing one last KolNidre. Telling an allegedly true story that had become the stuff of orthodoxJewish folklore, the film did what it set out to do: The New York Times wrote,"designed°to tug upon the heartstrings susceptible to plaintive ritualsinging, religious ceremonials, touches of filial piety°the sweet smile of adying child or the face of a wandering father outside a candlelit window on arainy night. All are generously provided."