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The Pawnbroker
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Not Rated
1965
1h 56m
Drama
7.6
88%
87%
7.1
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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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Cast of The Pawnbroker
Rod Steiger
Sol Nazerman
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Marilyn Birchfield
Brock Peters
Rodriguez
Jaime Sánchez
Jesus Ortiz
Thelma Oliver
Ortiz's Girl
Marketa Kimbrell
Tessie
Juano Hernández
Mr. Smith
Linda Geiser
Ruth
Nancy R. Pollock
Bertha
Raymond St. Jacques
Tangee
Baruch Lumet
Mendel
John McCurry
Buck
Charles Dierkop
Robinson
Eusebia Cosme
Mrs. Ortiz
Warren Finnerty
Savarese
Jack Ader
Morton
Marianne Kanter
Joan
Ed Morehouse
Oratory Award
Reni Santoni
Junkie Selling Radio (uncredited)
Morgan Freeman
Man on Street (Uncredited)
The Pawnbroker Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Kat Halstead
Steiger was nominated for an Oscar for his central performance in this impactful drama about a Jewish man in New York, haunted by his experience of the Holocaust.
Washington City Paper
Noah Gittell
The Pawnbroker is a difficult film. A groundbreaking film. A controversial, important, and altogether wonderful film that has little reputation today.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...still manages to shock the system thanks to its stark, near-subliminal editing techniques.
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Pauline Kael
Juano Hernandez, as the man who wants to talk, gives the single most moving performance I saw in 1965, and Rod Steiger's power makes our questioning of much of the action seem like quibbling.
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Sean Axmaker
It's dynamic and alive, a magnificent piece of location photography by the great Boris Kaufman and an early glimpse of the Lumet who will become one of the great chroniclers of New York City life.
New York Herald Tribune
Judith Crist
It is distinguished not only by Mr. Steiger's portrayal of a man encased in the world's anguish but also by several other performers and, above all perhaps, by its dealing with its story on its own terms.
Arizona Republic
William J. Nazzaro
[The Pawnbroker] is a brilliant cinema achievement. Directed with sharp eye by Sidney Lumet, this is a film that holds you by the throat for its full two-hour running time, and a film you will not long forget.
Unseen Films
Nathanael Hood
The rare film that's Important with a capital "I" as well as Great with a capital "G."
Vogue
Joan Didion
Lumet seems to me something of a puzzle. While some instinct leads him to undertake tremendously promising projects, he brings to those projects only a stunning literal-mindedness.
Los Angeles Free Press
Frank Urbach
It is our statement that Nazerman is as much Lumet's creation as Steigers: mood and visuals combine with the performance to present a screen creation wholly worthy of Emil Janning's work with Von Sternberg in Blue Angel.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
The Pawnbroker seemed to me a bore and a phony, a vulgarization of a serious theme, an exploitation of cinematic "effects" used without taste or intelligence.
The Dissolve
Nathan Rabin
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 souls of East Harlem.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
creates some haunting images and gives Rod Steiger a chance to blossom
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An unpleasant, solemn and overwrought melodrama about an embittered Jewish Holocaust survivor still haunted by his stay in Auschwitz.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
One of the first Hollywood films to deal with the Holocaust, The Pawnbroker is thematically and stylistically innovative, borrowing some of its devices from the French New Wave, such as brief flashbacks, stylized b/w imagery, and jazzy score.
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Dramatizes the psychological impact of the Nazi concentration camps, while drawing parallels to contemporary conditions of New York City ghetto life
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