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There was uproar in film-America when Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker had its premiere; not least for the appearance of a pair of naked female breasts (Thelma Oliver's) for the first time in an ''organized'' Hollywood product. ''The Production Code'' had previously not allowed such things. They were worried about what American youth would do when they finally got to see forbidden fruits at the local cinema. The two breasts seemed to frighten our friends of law and order more than the scenes from the concentration camps. In Harlem, New York, Sol Nazerman runs his pawnbroker's shop. On his shabby block he minds his own business and does not care about others. This man has no heart. He does not really possess any emotions at all. But he still has his memories, and in them he sees himself, his family and his people annihilated, disintegrate in a German concentration camp during the Second World War. It is not so strange that he does not care about his pawn broiler's shop in one of the world's shabbiest districts. Unable to feel sympathy, unable to establish contact, unable to live? Many say that Rod Steiger gives his career's best performance as Nazerman. Quincy Jones has composed the suggestive music, but it is not, as is so often said, his first soundtrack. His first was composed three years earlier in Sweden, for Arne Sucksdorff's The Boy in the Tree.

Premiärstatus
–: Orig. titel
The Pawnbroker: Medverkande
Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters: Producent
Roger Lewis & Philip Langner: Manus
David Friedkin & Morton Fine, based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant: Foto
Boris Kaufman: Musik
Quincy Jones: Talat språk
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