The Pawnbroker
USA  1965
B&W  116 minutes
 
 
Sol Nazerman, a survivor of the Holocaust that took his wife
and family, is a pawnbroker in Harlem.  He has pushed away
everyone and everything. He cares about nothing; he feels nothing.
Neither his eager shop assistant (Jaime Sanchez) nor a friendly
social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald) can seem to get through to him.
He carries on an lifeless affair with the wife of another concentration
camp victim.  He feels nothing for his neighbors or customers.
As the anniversary date of his own loss arrives and passes,
his world of isolation begins to crack.  Voices, visions, and calenders
begin to haunt him.  He is not accustomed to feeling anything,
and his first feeling is fear.
 
Cast

Rod Steiger - Sol Nazerman
Geraldine Fitzgerald - Marilyn Birchfield
Brock Peters - Rodriguez
Jaime Sanchez - Jesus Ortiz
Thelma Oliver - Ortiz's Girl
Marketa Kimbrel - Tessie
Baruch Lumet - Mendel
Juano Hernandez - Mr. Smith
Linda Geiser - Ruth Nazerman
Nancy R. Pollock - Bertha
Raymond St. Jacques - Tangee
John McCurry - Buck
Eusebia Cosme - Mrs. Ortiz
Warren Finnerty - Savarese
Jack Ader - Morton
E.M. Margolese - Papa
Marianne Kanter - Joan
Ed Morehouse - Robinson
Marc Alexander - Rubin
 

Crew

Director - Sidney Lumet
Producers - Roger Lewis & Philip Langner
Executive Producer - Worthington Miner
Associate Producer - Joseph Manduke
Writers - David Friedkin & Morton Fine
(from the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant)
Cinematographer - Boris Kaufman
Editor - Ralph Rosenblum
Music Composer - Quincy Jones
Art Director - Richard Sylbert
Production Company - Landau; Unger
Releasing Company - American International; Allied Artists
 
 
 


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