Nominated for the 1965 Academy Awards & winner of Best Actor honors at both the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival & the 1965 BAFTAs, Rod Steiger



plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker & Holocaust survivor embittered & broken by his experience. Sol has become increasingly removed from his friends & the business he runs in Harlem,



which has attracted the unwanted attentions of a mobster. Can he turn his life, & his shop, around?



Rated NR 1 hour 51 minutes 1965

2.25 stars. (David-2.5; Dale-2). Interesting film that was a bit slower than we were expecting. Interesting homoerotic scene with some gangster looking at muscle mags!