| Release Date: | Jun 1964 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations |
| Cast: | Rod Steiger (Sol Nazerman), Geraldine Fitzgerald (Marilyn Birchfield), Brock Peters (Rodriguez), Jaime Sánchez (Jesus Ortiz), Thelma Oliver (Ortiz' Girl), Marketa Kimbrell (Tessie), Baruch Lumet (Mendel), Juano Hernandez (Mr. Smith), Linda Geiser (Ruth), Nancy R. Pollock (Bertha), Raymond St. Jacques (Tangee), John McCurry (Buck), Ed Morehouse (Robinson), Eusebia Cosme (Mrs. Ortiz), Warren Finnerty (Savarese), Jack Ader (Morton (uncredited)), Marc Alexander (Rubin (uncredited)), Charles Dierkop (Robinson (uncredited)), Morgan Freeman (Man on Street (uncredited)), Hilda Haynes (Woman (uncredited)), Marianne Kanter (Joan (uncredited)), E.M. Margolese (Papa (uncredited)), Donnie Melvin (Nazerman's Son (uncredited)), Reni Santoni (Junkie selling radio (uncredited)) |
This was one of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany's concentration camps on their survivors. Sol Nazerman, operator of a pawn shop, and a concentration camp survivor faces a horrid internal conflict. Being engulfed in a New York ghetto Environment, Sol suffers flashbacks. The flashbacks juxtapose concentration camp treatment with ghetto neighborhood treatment. Although, the flashbacks suffer several historical inaccuracies, the point is well made. His internal conflicts between submitting to the same injustices he and his family suffered or resisting the injustice a peak at the end of the film
