Le Prêteur sur gages

Oliver Twist without the whimsy. A concentration-camp survivor runs a Harlem pawnshop, detached from everyone. Rod Steiger's haunted performance embodies a generation's trauma.

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Sidney Lumet directed Le Prêteur sur gages in 1965. See Sidney Lumet's full filmography, where to start with Sidney Lumet, or where to go after you've seen everything by Sidney Lumet.

Le Prêteur sur gages was released in 1965 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 116 minutes.