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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Edward Lewis Wallant's novel of the same name.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Edward Lewis Wallant's 1961 novel of the same name.
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A 1964 American Drama directed by Creator/SidneyLumet that follows Sol Nazerman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor (Creator/RodSteiger) who has lost most of his family and his faith in humanity.
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A 1964 American Drama drama film directed by Creator/SidneyLumet that follows Sol Nazerman, Nazerman (Creator/RodSteiger), a Jewish Holocaust survivor (Creator/RodSteiger) who has lost most of his family and his faith in humanity.
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A 1964 American Drama directed by Creator/SidneyLumet that follows a Jewish Holocaust survivor (Creator/RodSteiger) dealing losing his family and faith in humanity.
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald, Creator/BrockPeters, Creator/JaimeSanchez, Creator/ThelmaOliver, Creator/EusebiaCosme, Creator/MarketaKimbrell, Creator/BaruchLumet, and Creator/JuanoHernandez.
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald, Creator/BrockPeters, Creator/JaimeSanchez, Creator/ThelmaOliver, Creator/EusebiaCosme, Creator/MarketaKimbrell, Creator/BaruchLumet, and Creator/JuanoHernandez.
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A 1964 American Drama directed by Creator/SidneyLumet that follows Sol Nazerman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor (Creator/RodSteiger) dealing losing who has lost most of his family and his faith in humanity.
Nazerman runs a pawnshop in Harlem, but his primary source of income is using the pawnshop to launder money for the local gangster and pimp Rodriguez (Creator/BrockPeters). Due to the trauma he experienced in Nazi Germany, Nazerman is emotionally shut off from the rest of humanity and makes it a point to be cruel and rude to nearly everyone, including his remaining family, his loyal employee Ortiz (Creator/JaimeSanchez), and anyone who attempts to befriend him or make courteous small talk with him.
However, when Nazerman sees first-hand that his money comes from exploited young women, it awakens enough of his empathy for him to attempt to defy his gangster boss.
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald,Creator/BrockPeters, Creator/JaimeSanchez, Creator/ThelmaOliver, Creator/EusebiaCosme, Creator/MarketaKimbrell, Creator/BaruchLumet, and Creator/JuanoHernandez.
Nazerman runs a pawnshop in Harlem, but his primary source of income is using the pawnshop to launder money for the local gangster and pimp Rodriguez (Creator/BrockPeters). Due to the trauma he experienced in Nazi Germany, Nazerman is emotionally shut off from the rest of humanity and makes it a point to be cruel and rude to nearly everyone, including his remaining family, his loyal employee Ortiz (Creator/JaimeSanchez), and anyone who attempts to befriend him or make courteous small talk with him.
However, when Nazerman sees first-hand that his money comes from exploited young women, it awakens enough of his empathy for him to attempt to defy his gangster boss.
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald,
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ortiz is shot and killed saving Sol from robbers, and Sol stabs his hand on a receipt spike to take his mind off of his guilt.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ortiz is shot and killed saving Sol from robbers, and Sol stabs his hand on a receipt spike to take his mind off of his guilt.]]
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* Gayngster: A member of the street gang who accompanies Ortiz to rob Nazerman's shop is seen laying in bed ogling photos of a muscle man magazine shortly before the robbery.
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* Gayngster: {{Gayngster}}: A member of the street gang who accompanies Ortiz to rob Nazerman's shop is seen laying in bed ogling photos of a muscle man magazine shortly before the robbery.
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*Gayngster: A member of the street gang who accompanies Ortiz to rob Nazerman's shop is seen laying in bed ogling photos of a muscle man magazine shortly before the robbery.
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*FauxAffablyEvil: Rodriguez puts on a charade of being polite and gracious with Sol, but the moment Sol challenges his authority, Rodriguez shows his true nature as a cruel and ruthless thug.
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*GreedyJew: Lampshaded innocently when Ortiz asks Sol why "you people" have such a good head for business, and then by Sol, who admits that centuries of being cut off from a normal life as a nation of landowners, farmers, etc have made finance the only path to success among Jews.
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* MisanthropeSupreme: Nazerman seems to hate almost all of humanity for what he and his family went through.
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* MisanthropeSupreme: Nazerman seems to hate almost all of humanity for what he and his family went through.through in a Nazi concentration camp.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ortiz is shot and killed saving Sol from robbers, and Sol stabs his hand on a receipt spike to take his mind off his guilt.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ortiz is shot and killed saving Sol from robbers, and Sol stabs his hand on a receipt spike to take his mind off of his guilt.]]]]
*EveryoneHasStandards: After being insulated by Sol, Ortiz decides to rob the pawnshop, but insists that his accomplices don't shoot or otherwise kill or seriously injure Sol in the process.
*EveryoneHasStandards: After being insulated by Sol, Ortiz decides to rob the pawnshop, but insists that his accomplices don't shoot or otherwise kill or seriously injure Sol in the process.
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*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sol realizes that his cruel treatment of Ortiz was the reason for the robbery and [[spoiler: Ortiz's death]]. We also see images of other people that Sol treated with hateful contempt flash through his mind as he watches [[spoiler: Ortiz die of the gunshot wound]].
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* BigApplesauce: Much of the movie takes place in East Harlem, where Sol keeps his pawnshop.
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* BigApplesauce: Much of the movie takes place in East Harlem, where Sol is currently living.keeps his pawnshop.
*CloudCuckooLander: Mr. Smith, who gives long, rambling, barely coherent commentaries on the works of various philosophers and literary figures to Nazerman, much to the latter's annoyance and disgust.
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* MsFanservice: Also heavily [[AvertedTrope averted]] - when Rodriguez's prostitute friend flashes her breasts at Sol, he experiences a flashback of seeing his wife bare-breasted while in a concentration camp. Because of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, the movie was turned down for a production seal (and nearly rejected for distribution by every studio), but Lumet, on the advice of Creator/JosephLMankiewicz, appealed the decision and won.
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* MsFanservice: Also heavily [[AvertedTrope averted]] - when Rodriguez's prostitute friend Ortiz's girl flashes her breasts at Sol, he experiences a flashback of seeing his wife bare-breasted while in a concentration camp. Because of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, the movie was turned down for a production seal (and nearly rejected for distribution by every studio), but Lumet, on the advice of Creator/JosephLMankiewicz, appealed the decision and won.
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*SwissBankAccount: Sol's pawnshop is part of Rodriguez's money laundering outfit: the shop itself loses money and gets a tax break, while Rodriguez funnels money earned from his brothels and other illegal operations through the shop.
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* MsFanservice: Also heavily [[AvertedTrope averted]] - when Ortiz's Rodriguez's prostitute friend flashes her breasts and at Sol, he flashes back to experiences a flashback of seeing his wife bare-breasted while in a concentration camp. Because of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, the movie was turned down for a production seal (and nearly rejected for distribution by every studio), but Lumet, on the advice of Creator/JosephLMankiewicz, appealed the decision and won.
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*EmptyShell: As he more or less admits to Marilyn, Sol Nazerman is completely unable to connect with other people due to the emotional trauma of having survived a concentration camp. He seems only able to fill this emotional void by rudely expressing his contempt for other people.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ortiz is shot and killed saving Sol from robbers, and Sol stabs his hand on a receiptspike.spike to take his mind off his guilt.]]
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*SurvivorGuilt: Sol experiences this twice, first as a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp that killed most of his friends and family, and a second time when [[spoiler: Ortiz sacrifices his life to save Sol during a robbery, despite Sol's cruel treatment of him]].
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Sol's memories about the Holocaust show up as these, which can also blur into nightmares, especially as the movie goes on.
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: Sol considers everyone- "black, white or yellow"- to all be equally "scum."
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* LargeHam: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] - Creator/SidneyLumet had been reluctant to work with Creator/RodSteiger on the movie because Steiger tended towards this in most of his performances, but Steiger surprised Lumet by underplaying the role to the point he was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor for his performance (though he lost to Creator/LeeMarvin for ''Film/CatBallou'').
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* {{Tagline}}: "The Most Talked About Picture!".Picture!".
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A 1964 American Drama directed by Creator/SidneyLumet that follows a Jewish Holocaust survivor (Creator/RodSteiger) dealing losing his family and faith in humanity.
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald, Creator/BrockPeters, Creator/JaimeSanchez, Creator/ThelmaOliver, Creator/EusebiaCosme, Creator/MarketaKimbrell, Creator/BaruchLumet, and Creator/JuanoHernandez.
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* BigApplesauce: Much of the movie takes place in East Harlem, where Sol is currently living.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sol Nazerman is traumatized by what happened to him and his family in a [=WWII=] Nazi concentration camp. He hasn't been able to work through his issues, which causes those unpleasant memories to regularly flood his mind.
* GenocideSurvivor: Sol survived the Holocaust, which is still haunting him throughout the events of the film.
* ImpaledPalm: Sol does this to himself at the end of the movie.
* {{Tagline}}: "The Most Talked About Picture!".
The movie also stars Creator/GeraldineFitzgerald, Creator/BrockPeters, Creator/JaimeSanchez, Creator/ThelmaOliver, Creator/EusebiaCosme, Creator/MarketaKimbrell, Creator/BaruchLumet, and Creator/JuanoHernandez.
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!Tropes for the film:
* BigApplesauce: Much of the movie takes place in East Harlem, where Sol is currently living.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sol Nazerman is traumatized by what happened to him and his family in a [=WWII=] Nazi concentration camp. He hasn't been able to work through his issues, which causes those unpleasant memories to regularly flood his mind.
* GenocideSurvivor: Sol survived the Holocaust, which is still haunting him throughout the events of the film.
* ImpaledPalm: Sol does this to himself at the end of the movie.
* {{Tagline}}: "The Most Talked About Picture!".
