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The Pawnbroker (1965)
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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...
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| The Pawnbroker Movie Review by Jarrod (12/17/2008) |
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'The Pawnbroker' features what is arguably Rod Steiger's best performance; a hard-edged New York method actor, Steiger won an Oscar in 1967 for In the Heat of the Night, and was nominated for his role here, losing to Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou, which is an injustice, not to say I do not like Lee Marvin, but Steiger was more...
(complete The Pawnbroker review by Jarrod)
| The Pawnbroker Movie Review by Andy (12/13/2007) |
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I rented this movie from my local library having heard of the praise Rod Steiger's performance. It doesn't disappoint. You really see why actors like Rod Steiger were able to change the movie landscape forever. The new wave of actors in the 1960's really brought acting to the forefront while pushing the maximum star power...
(complete The Pawnbroker review by Andy)
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