The Pawn Broker

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is a flashback sequence in which female prisoners are taunted by the guards at the concentration camp, with the guards laughing as they roughly wash a woman's body. In another scene, prison guards enter rooms where women sit or lie on beds, with the implication that the women will be forced to have sex with the guards.

nudity

There is a sequence of sexualised nudity in which a woman takes off her dress, revealing her breasts, and asks a man to look at her body with the intention of having sex with him for money. This nudity is shown for some time and is interspersed with flashbacks of naked women in a concentration camp. There is also sight of a drawing of a nude woman in one sequence.

There is use of discriminatory language including 'kike'. In one scene a character questions another character's description of a man as a 'creature' by asking if he's used that term because the man in question in black. He replies "I'm non-discriminatory, non-sectarian. Black white or yellow, they're all equally scum, rejects." There is no endorsement or glamorisation of such language or opinions. There is moderate injury detail in the film, including sight of blood after characters are attacked. There are references to a 'whorehouse', and occasional smoking within a historical context. There are flashbacks throughout the film to the life and hardships of prisoners in the concentration camp, with many such flashbacks shown as brief images or footage interspersed with the contemporary narrative, appearing similar to flash frames.

Classified Date:

14/10/1965

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Planet Films

sexualised nudity, sexual threat

Classified Date:

16/08/2021

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

BFI Video

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is a flashback sequence in which female prisoners are taunted by the guards at the concentration camp, with the guards laughing as they roughly wash a woman's body. In another scene, prison guards enter rooms where women sit or lie on beds, with the implication that the women will be forced to have sex with the guards.

nudity

There is a sequence of sexualised nudity in which a woman takes off her dress, revealing her breasts, and asks a man to look at her body with the intention of having sex with him for money. This nudity is shown for some time and is interspersed with flashbacks of naked women in a concentration camp. There is also sight of a drawing of a nude woman in one sequence.

There is use of discriminatory language including 'kike'. In one scene a character questions another character's description of a man as a 'creature' by asking if he's used that term because the man in question in black. He replies "I'm non-discriminatory, non-sectarian. Black white or yellow, they're all equally scum, rejects." There is no endorsement or glamorisation of such language or opinions. There is moderate injury detail in the film, including sight of blood after characters are attacked. There are references to a 'whorehouse', and occasional smoking within a historical context. There are flashbacks throughout the film to the life and hardships of prisoners in the concentration camp, with many such flashbacks shown as brief images or footage interspersed with the contemporary narrative, appearing similar to flash frames.

Classified Date:

17/07/1998

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Polygram Video Ltd

Classified date

16/08/2021
Language

English

Director(s)

Sidney Lumet

Production Year

1964

Genre(s)

Drama

Approx. running minutes

116m

Cast

Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters

The Pawn Broker

Director(s)

Sidney Lumet

Production Year

1964

Genre(s)

Drama

Approx. running minutes

116m

Cast

Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters

Classified date

16/08/2021

Language

English