Marketa Kimbrell Movies
- 1983
- R
This amateur, poorly interpreted psychological drama features Pat Stuart (Pat Russell, also the director) a young Midwestern woman with acting ambitions who travels to New York City in the hopes of turning around her current misfortune. Her parents have died, and her marriage to a businessman is ending. With nothing left for her at home but a depression she cannot handle, New York at least offers the possibility of a different life. When she meets John Stevens (Tony Craig), an actor and sculptor, he seems to give her the encouragement she needs. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pat Russell, Tony Craig, (more)
Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, even though his wife and family did not. The devastating experience and unrelenting memories inhibit Sol from emotional involvement with life. He has no faith in religion and less in mankind. Though he carries on an affair with a woman who was also a victim of the Nazi camps, it is without emotion and Sol grows increasingly bitter and callous, withdrawing still further from the world around him. As his small shop in Harlem is run with little care or attention, it becomes a convenient cover for a local racketeer. Finally, a caring social worker tries to appeal to his humanity, but Sol's emotional wounds may prove to be too great to overcome. Based on a book by Edward Lewis Wallant, The Pawnbroker features the skilled camera work of Boris Kaufman, who had previously worked with director Sidney Lumet on films such as 12 Angry Men (1957) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). The score is composed by Quincy Jones, who would contribute to Lumet's 1978 musical, The Wiz. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, (more)
