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...PAWNBROKER. As an anguished old Jew caught between the remembered horrors of Nazi Germany and the deadly grind of life in Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger illuminates one of the year's grimmest films with one of the year's grandest performances...
...bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest homes; by her own hand (she was found hanging by her braided bathrobe belt from a shower-curtain rod); in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich...
...have. Needless to say, the man was ecstatic over his present, and for a week he did nothing but play with it. He'd go out merrily into the woods, catch little animals, put them in his smipe, and push them hither and thither with the silver plated rod that was provided for that purpose. As months passed, however, his wife became more and more distressed, for he did nothing all day but play with his smipe. He neglected his children, never went to work, and dressed in a slovenly manner. Finally, driven to desperation by his inattention, the wife...
...PAWNBROKER. Rod Steiger gives a virtuoso performance as an embittered old Jew whose half life in Spanish Harlem is shaped by the memory of Nazi terrors...
...wide variety of dancelike maneuvers and no doubt cost very little. But Lithgow stuck in one whimsical touch. As Pancrace he winds up, at one point, behind the curtain, still arguing with himself. He finishes his speech with a flourish, and just his hand appears above the curtain rod...