The Pawnbroker
by Sidney Lumet
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Actor: Brock Peters, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jaime S?nchez, Rod Steiger, Thelma OliverDirector: Sidney Lumet
Brand: STEIGER,ROD
Producer: Joseph Manduke
Producer: Philip Langner
Producer: Roger Lewis
Producer: Worthington Miner
Writer: David Friedkin
Writer: Edward Lewis Wallant
Writer: Morton S. Fine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Republic Pictures
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Movie Review: V H S review " The Pawn Broker"
Summary: 4 Stars
High drama about the scars left on the personality and life of a holocaust survivor. It is a dramatic story of a pawn broker working in a poor neighborhood and how this pathetic individual interacts with members of his family and the people of the neighborhood.
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No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 16-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD
Based on a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, this gritty story follows Sol (Rod Steiger in a breakout performance), a lonely camp survivor who has dealt with the destruction of his family by suppressing all emotion and cleaving to the philosophy that nothing matters except money. (His bedridden and dying friend Mendel describes him, to his face, as "the walking dead.") Sol cannot accept the friendship of his assistant, Ortiz (Jaime Sanchez), or of an equally lonely widow (Geraldine Fitzgerald). As the 25th anniversary of his wife's murder approaches, he starts to fall apart, and it becomes clear that what he really wants is to die. The film was considered shocking when first released, both because of its rawness and because of brief nudity. Time has made some of the dramatic touches seem melodramatic--especially the corny "blood on my hands!" final scene. But Steiger's performance is still remarkable, and, even after MTV, the sudden-flashback editing is a forceful technique. A high point of Sidney Lumet's career. Black and white, with lots of atmospheric trumpets by Quincy Jones. --Richard Farr
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