The Pawnbroker (film)
1964 film by Sidney Lumet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan Freeman in his feature film debut. The screenplay was an adaptation by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant.
The Pawnbroker | |
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Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
Written by | Morton S. Fine David Friedkin |
Based on | The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant |
Produced by | Philip Langner Roger Lewis Ely Landau |
Starring | Rod Steiger Geraldine Fitzgerald Brock Peters Jaime Sánchez Thelma Oliver |
Cinematography | Boris Kaufman |
Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum |
Music by | Quincy Jones |
Production company | |
Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $930,000 |
Box office | $2.5 million (US rentals),[1] over $4 million global[2] |
The film was the first produced entirely in the United States to deal with the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor.[3] It earned international acclaim for Steiger, launching his career as an A-list actor.[4] It was among the first American films to feature a homosexual character and nudity during the Production Code, and was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval. Although it was publicly announced to be a special exception, the controversy proved to be first of similar major challenges to the Code that ultimately led to its abrogation.[5]
In 2008, The Pawnbroker was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[6][7]