A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral...
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The Pawnbroker (1961) is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of Sol Nazerman, a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of...
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The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan...
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collateral. Pawnbroker may refer to: The Pawnbroker, a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant The Pawnbroker (film), a 1964 American drama film Pawnbroker (dragster)...
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Hardcore Pawn. Gold is a third generation pawnbroker/salesman, the grandson of a pawnbroker who once owned the company "Sam's Loans", a now-defunct pawnshop...
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200 pawnbrokers in Hong Kong, with the number increasing over the next several years. Pawn shops are some of the oldest businesses in Hong Kong. The pawn...
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Pawnbroker is a pioneering rear-engined dragster built in 1969. In 1969, prodded to action by the death of John Mulligan earlier in the year, Woody Gilmore...
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August 21, 1954) is an Israeli pawnbroker, businessman, entrepreneur, and reality television personality. Yossi Dina, the entrepreneur and TV personality...
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The National Pawnbrokers Association (NPA) is a USA-based trade association headquartered in Southlake, Texas. The NPA was founded in 1987 to help the...
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History of pawnbroking (redirect from History of pawnbrokers)
non-Jews. Until the Reformation, Christians were also forbidden to lend to each other for interest. The earliest Chinese pawnbrokers, in the 5th century,...
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the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964), and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film...
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The Pawnbrokers Act 2015 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that relates to pawnbrokers. The 2015 Act repeals and re-enacts the Pawnbrokers Act...
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uncredited appearance in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker (starring Rod Steiger), in which he played a junkie trying to sell a radio to the title character (using...
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Crime and Punishment (2002 Russian film) (category Films set in the 2000s)
theory by murdering an old woman, who is a pawnbroker, and her sister, who accidentally witnesses the crime. In the aftermath, Raskolnikov is increasingly...
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broker List broker Matchmaking Meat broker Message broker Mortgage broker Pawnbroker Power broker (term) Prime brokerage Real estate broker Shipbroking Sponsorship...
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Brock Peters (category The High School of Music & Art alumni)
Jones (1954), The Pawnbroker (1964), Soylent Green (1973) and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Peters was born George Fisher in New York City, the son of Alma...
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Gideon: A pawnbroker who fences Shelly's engagement ring after it is given to him by T-Bird; in the film adaptation, Tin-Tin gives him the ring. Officer...
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pawnbroker and pawns the coat for $50. The pawnbroker gives her a pawn ticket, which she declines to mark with any kind of name or description. The ticket...
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Richard Benjamin Harrison (redirect from The Appraiser)
Harrison (2011), pp. 50–53; 92 Steven Mihailovich (July 4, 2005). "Pawnbrokers break the stereotype". Las Vegas Business Press. Vol. 22, no. 27. p. 2. "Pezzed...
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mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor...
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currently married. He owns the Philadelphia pawnbroker shop Carver W. Reed. He is a past president of the Pennsylvania State Pawnbroker's Association. Hardcore...
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The Black Country Living Museum Pawnbrokers Shop is a recreation of a pawnbroker's at the Black Country Living Museum. It is one of a pair of cottages...
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Edward Lewis Wallant (category The New School alumni)
1962) was an American novelist who wrote The Pawnbroker (1961). It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet and...
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films such as The Pawnbroker (1964), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Easy Rider (1969) in which Finnerty plays a rancher whose lifestyle draws the admiration of...
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Caesar and Me (redirect from Caesar and Me (The Twilight Zone))
valuable keepsakes like his grandfather's watch to pawnbrokers in exchange for petty cash. At the boarding house where he lives, he is mercilessly taunted...
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The pawnbroker gives Charlie a second chance because of his "eleven children"—a fiction which Charlie has hastily invented for the occasion. In the kitchen...
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Sidney Lumet (category People from the Lower East Side)
for Prince of the City (1981). Other films include A View from the Bridge (1962), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1964), Fail Safe...
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Quincy Jones (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
music for The Pawnbroker (1964). It was the first of his nearly 40 major motion picture scores. Following the success of The Pawnbroker, Jones left Mercury...
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Saint Nicholas (redirect from Saint Nicholas the Miracle Worker)
Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers...
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Oscars awarded: 2,170 Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) each earned 11 Academy...
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