
Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter, partners in a garment company, hire Boris Andrieff, a poor Russian violinist, as a fitter. Boris falls in love with Irma Potash to the disappointment of Abe, who had hoped for his daughter to marry Feldman, a wealthy lawyer.


In the annals of early American cinema, few works capture the frantic pulse of the immigrant experience with as much verve and idiosyncratic charm as Potash and Perlmutter (1923). This celluloid adaptation of the celebrated stage play—itself an evolution of Montague Glass’s literary vignettes—serves as more than a mere...

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"In the annals of early American cinema, few works capture the frantic pulse of the immigrant experience with as much verve and idiosyncratic charm as Potash and Perlmutter (1923). This celluloid adaptation of the celebrated stage play—itself an evolution of Montague Glass’s literary vignettes—serves as more than a mere comedy of errors; it is a sprawling, often poignant examination of the American Dream's industrial machinery. Directed with a keen eye for spatial dynamics and social hierarchy, t..."
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