Sunday Matinee Classics presents The Pawnbroker

Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Pawnbroker is a searing portrait of a holocaust survivor, played by Rod Steiger in a powerful performance of realism, who with haunting, anguished memories of the horror of the camps lives in a shuttered, escapist world of urban blight.  As a victim of Nazi persecution, he loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

This program, in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, will open with an informative introduction and end with closing comments.