Americaner Shadchen
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have S…
Americaner Shadchen
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations... —David Steele Nat Silver is a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. So this slick sophisticate decides that he must learn how to arrange a good marriage in order to find himself a good match, and reinvents himself as a shadkhn (matchmaker). Not your traditional matchmaker, Nat sets off on his new venture, which he knows nothing about, in ascot and morning coat, and refuses to charge for his services, a policy which gets him picketed by the local shadkhonim. The East European shtetl mores meet New York sophistication in this urbane romantic comedy. —The National Center For Jewish Film <ncjf@brandeis.edu>
Americaner Shadchen
Comedy,Romance
Film Details
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend.
With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy.
But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations... —David Steele Nat Silver is a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. So this slick sophisticate decides that he must learn how to arrange a good marriage in order to find himself a good match, and reinvents himself as a shadkhn (matchmaker).
Not your traditional matchmaker, Nat sets off on his new venture, which he knows nothing about, in ascot and morning coat, and refuses to charge for his services, a policy which gets him picketed by the local shadkhonim. The East European shtetl mores meet New York sophistication in this urbane romantic comedy. —The National Center For Jewish Film <ncjf@brandeis.edu>.