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Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker is an unrelentingly grim examination of a man who lives in the darkest depths of despair. Rod Steiger is nothing short of brilliant as Nazerman and his performance...
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A powerful but grim movie about a Harlem pawnbroker terrorized by memories of the Nazi death camps, this is an excellent drama enhanced by a brilliant cast, on-location shooting in New York and at the end, a surprisingly strong note of compassion.
The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan Freeman in his feature film debut. The screenplay was an adaptation by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant .
The Pawnbroker: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez. A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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- Sidney Lumet
- 1965-04-20
The Pawnbroker is now regarded as important because it was the first major American movie to depict a concentration camp, the appearance of nudity and an openly homosexual character (Brock Peters plays a gangster living with a male lover).
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Film Review: ‘The Pawnbroker’. The Pawnbroker [based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant] is a painstakingly etched portrait of a man who survived the living hell of a Nazi concentration...
The Pawnbroker is a paradoxically obsessed with death, yet roaring with life, a jazzy urban tragedy that sees shadows of the Holocaust in the suffering and exploitation of the dead-eyed...