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The Pawnbroker

A long time ago, Sol Nazerman was a professor. He had a wife, children. Then the Germans came. Sol survived the concentration camp, his family did not. Now, as the pawnbroker in a shop owned by a racketeer, he grows increasingly bitter and callous, withdrawing still further from the world around him...

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Corporate Authors: Republic Pictures Corporation, Republic Entertainment Inc, Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Landau, Ely (Producer), Steinmann, Herbert R. (Producer), Lewis, Roger, 1918-1984 (Producer), Langner, Philip (Producer), Fine, Morton, 1916-1991 (Screenwriter), Friedkin, David (Screenwriter), Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 (Director), Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002 (Actor), Peters, Brock (Actor), Sánchez, Jaime, 1938- (Actor), Hernandez, Juano (Actor), St. Jacques, Raymond, 1930- (Actor), Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 1913-2005 (Actor), Jones, Quincy, 1933-, Wallant, Edward Lewis, 1926-1962
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: [Los Angeles, CA] : Santa Monica, CA : Republic Entertainment ; Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment, c2003.
Subjects:
Pawnbrokers > Drama.
Holocaust survivors > Drama.
Inner cities > Drama.
Criminal behavior > Drama.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Gangsters > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Drama.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
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Table of Contents:
  • That age-old charm
  • Main title
  • Hard man, not a talker
  • Professor once
  • Just a handout
  • Gift from a friend
  • "Teach me gold"
  • Avoiding October
  • Smart boy like that
  • Partners in love and misery
  • Miss Birchfield's lunch date
  • "You people?"
  • "Good boy"
  • Coward's survival
  • Bitterness vs. loneliness
  • Only other absolute
  • If if if
  • Look at something pretty
  • Money from filth
  • Fear rushing in
  • People on the train
  • "You're nothing like me"
  • Worried about Ortiz
  • "So kill me!"
  • Wrong sacrifice
  • End credits.

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