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  • Actors: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez, Thelma Oliver
  • Directors: Sidney Lumet
  • Writers: David Friedkin, Edward Lewis Wallant, Morton S. Fine
  • Producers: Joseph Manduke, Philip Langner, Roger Lewis, Worthington Miner
  • Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Language English, German, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Republic Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Dec 2003
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000EYUES
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,771 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fine example of film gris, 28 Jul 2000
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This review is from: The Pawnbroker [1965] [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is not so much film noir (not that it's meant to be) as film gris. The seedy streets and pawn shop in the middle of somewhere downtown New York provide the backdrop for Steiger to play a Jewish man who has lived through the horrors of Nazi Germany, and now finds himself clinging grimly on to his life and business in another ghetto. You can see the workings of this man's mind clearly, even the flashbacks he's getting of the atrocities of the past, behind the increasingly ashen colour of his face as the plot unfolds. The tributes go to Steiger - this must be one of his most impressive performances in his portrayal of the psychological make up of the damaged Sol Nazerman, and Sidney Lumet whose direction is quite innovative in the Hollywood context of its time. His use of flashback is at first almost subliminal and adds greatly to the sense of turmoil in Nazerman's mind, not just revealing his past but showing us that the trauma is still with him and spilling over into his current life. Some people are bothered by the soundtrack, which is a little odd at times but didn't worry me greatly; I was more disappointed by a slightly weak ending, but by then the point has been made and the performance given which in this case are the most important elements.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An unsentimental look at survivor's guilt, 9 April 2007
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`The Pawnbroker' was directed in 1965 by: Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men,1957; Serpico, 1973; Dog Day Afternoon, 1974)
The film deals with a Holocaust survivor suffering survivor's guilt after his wife and children died in the camps. He is now experiencing flash-backs to he experiences in the camps. He is clearly a man at war with himself and seeks to isolate himself from the world and people believing only in absolutes. Several people who appear to be lonely and desperate come into the store simply seeking company or help only to turned away by his now cold indifference. Essentially this is a wonderful character study of man who has given up on life believing the world to be cruel and inhumane.

Cinematography on `The Pawnbroker' was by Boris Kaufman the younger brother of Dziga Vertov (Man With A Movie Camera,1929) He had shot perhaps the finest of all poetic realist films, `L'Atalante' (1934, Jean Vigo) as well as `Zero For Conduct' (1933. Jean Vigo). In 1942 he moved to America where he made a name for himself by working with Elia Kazan on `On The Waterfront'(1954)and `Baby Doll' (1956) winning an Oscar for the former. His cinematography had a high contrast monochromatic element to it that can be clearly seen in `The Pawnbroker'. It has the same grittiness that can also be seen in the films of John Cassavettes. Music was composed by Quincy Jones which gives it a sixties Harlem flavour. The film stars the underrated Rod Steiger (On The Waterfront, 1954; In The Heat Of The Night, 1967; Fist Full Of Dynamite, 1972) in the lead role. I found the film well worth watching because it avoids a lot the sentimentality that can be seen in films of this nature.
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