✶ Shadow in Glass: On Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker (1964) There are films that shout. The Pawnbroker does something quieter, and more devastating — it remembers. Sidney Lumet’s 1964 masterpiece follows Sol Nazerman, a Holocaust survivor numbly operating a pawnshop in Harlem. Each trinket handed across the counter is a ghost. Rod Steiger plays Sol as a man whose heart has gone into hibernation. His silence is louder than any monologue. But the past won’t stay buried. Lumet pierces the present wi