Trivia for
The Pawnbroker (1964) More at IMDb Pro »

• Most of the action of the film takes place on the west side of Park Avenue just to the north of 116th Street.
  
  
• The first US film to show a nude woman from the waist up and be granted a Production Code Seal.
  
  
• Since the film was black and white, the blood seen is actually chocolate syrup.
  
  

• Morgan Freeman's first movie.
  
  
• In a 1999 interview with Robert Osborne, Rod Steiger said he based the silent scream at the end of the film on the faces in Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica".
  
  
• While walking the streets of New York City, Nazerman passes a theater advertising The L-Shaped Room (1962), a film that featured Brock Peters, who plays Rodriguez.
  
  
• The woman who appears topless for a few moments, thus creating a mainstream movie milestone for that time, is Thelma Oliver.
  
  

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