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Like Peter O’Toole’s portrayal of Lawrence a few years before, Rod Steiger’s Sol Nazerman—an East Harlem Holocaust survivor, pawnshop owner, and misanthrope par excellence—is a tour de force performance of both subtle and explosive terror, dread, and brilliance. The film in question—The Pawnbroker, a 1964 drama—is unlike any Holocaust film before it. Adapted from an […]