The Pawnbroker

Lumet investigates the reverberations of the Holocaust two decades later in this haunting depiction of a life altered in its wake. Numb from his experience in a concentration camp, Sol Nazerman (Steiger) lives a life emotionally alienated from those around him in a heartbreaking portrayal of post-Holocaust life. Marking Morgan Freeman’s feature film debut, it’s also Lumet’s first film to shoot at Hoyt-Schermerhorn ahead of 1978’s The Wiz, and one of the major contributors to the deterioration of the Production Code throughout the ‘60s.