The Pawnbroker is a 1964 drama film, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters and Jaime Sánchez and directed by Sidney Lumet. It was adapted by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant. The film was the first American movie to deal with the Jewish holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor. It earned international acclaim for Steiger, launching his career as an A-list actor, and was among the first American movies to feature 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 abandonment. 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". With the rise of Hitler, Sol Nazerman , a German-Jewish university professor, was dragged to a concentration camp along with his family.
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| Release date: | 1965 |
| Directed by: | Sidney Lumet |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Roger Lewis, Herbert R. Steinmann, Philip Langner, Ely A. Landau |
| Editor: | Ralph Rosenblum |
| Music by: | Quincy Jones |
| Cinematography: | Boris Kaufman |
| Screenplay by: | David Friedkin, Edward Lewis Wallant, Morton S. Fine |
| Estimated budget: | $500,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Pawnbroker |