Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, this drama focuses on former professor Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), the survivor of a German concentration camp who now runs a pawn shop in East Harlem.

The composer and arranger Quincy Jones, who died Nov. 3 at age 91, was a pioneer in many respects. His first film score assignment was 1964’s The Pawnbroker, which was the first US movie that ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Rod Steiger brought out the best in his co-stars, so much so that frequent collaborator Norman Jewison tried to fit the stocky actor into all his movies. ``I always tried to put him ...