Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
- musical
- studies
- judaism
- disguise
- unhappiness
- boys' school
- woman director
- jewish
- yeshiva
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Steven Hill — Reb Alter Vishkower
- Allan Corduner — Shimmele
- Ruth Goring — Esther Rachel
- David de Keyser — Rabbi Zalman
- Bernard Spear — Tailor
- Doreen Mantle — Mrs. Shaemen
- Lynda Baron — Peshe
- Jack Lynn — Bookseller
- Anna Tzelniker — Mrs. Kovner
- Miriam Margolyes — Sarah
- Mary Henry — Mrs. Jacobs
- Directed
- Barbra Streisand
- Written
- Barbra Streisand, Jack Rosenthal
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 271 ratings
- Studio
- Ladbroke, United Artists, Barwood Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
