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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. The word pawn is derived from the Latin pignus, for pledge, and the items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collateral. While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewellery, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, televisions, cameras, power tools and other relatively valuable items as collateral.
If an item is pawned for a loan (colloquially, "hocked"), within a certain contractual period of time the pawner may redeem it for the amount of the loan plus some agreed-upon amount for interest. The amount of time, and rate of interest, is governed by law or by the pawnbroker's policies. If the loan is not paid (or extended, if applicable) within the time period, the pawned item will be offered for sale to other customers by the pawnbroker. Unlike other lenders, the pawnbroker does not report the defaulted loan on the customer's credit report, since the pawnbroker has physical possession of the item and may recoup the loan value through outright sale of the item. The pawnbroker also sells items that have been sold outright to them by customers. Some pawnshops are willing to trade items in their shop for items brought to them by customers.
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 his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life operating a pawn shop in East Harlem. It was adapted into a motion picture by Sidney Lumet.
Nazerman is a bulky man, 45 years old, who before the war had been a professor at the University of Cracow. He has dealt with his trauma by deliberately shutting down his emotions, with the result that he sees everyone around him, especially the desperate people who come into his shop, as "scum." Nazerman is plagued by nightmares and headaches stemming from the physical and mental trauma of his wartime experiences, in which his wife was forced into prostitution and his son drowned in the excrement of a cattle car on the way to the concentration camp.
Having lost his family in the camps, Sol now lives with his sister Bertha in the suburb of Mt. Vernon. She has married a mid-westerner and prizes her American-looking blonde haired daughter over her Jewish looking son. He is also taking care of his best friend's widow, Tessie, and her dying father, Mendel. Sol supports both families through the pawnshop, which is in reality a front for Mafia money.
Yossi Dina (Hebrew: יוסי דינה) is an Israeli businessman, entrepreneur, and reality television personality who lives in Hollywood.
Yossi Dina was born in Israel and raised on a kibbutz. He then went on to serve in the Israeli Army and to work as an intelligence officer. From there, he went on to work in Paris, and eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where he sold jewelry door-to-door.
He became known as the “pawnbroker to the rich and famous” after opening a pawnshop named "The Dina Collection" in Beverly Hills. Dina has done business with many celebrities, including Lenny Dykstra, Larry King, and many others.
Dina's shop, the subject of the reality series Beverly Hills Pawn on the Reelz Channel, sells millions of dollars worth of paintings, sculptures, jewelry, watches, first editions, cars and memorabilia.
Dina lives in Malibu in a multimillion-dollar home that once belonged to singer and comedian Al Jolson.
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel is a historic hotel located at 9500 Wilshire Boulevard on the east side of South Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. It was constructed by real estate developer Walter G. McCarty on the site of the former Beverly Hills Speedway. It was completed in 1928 (when the city had fewer than 18,000 residents), and was then known as the "Beverly Wilshire Apartment Hotel". The E-shaped structure is built of a Tuscan stone and Carrara marble in the Italian Renaissance architecture style.
Renamed the Beverly Wilshire Hotel by new owners, it was renovated with a ballroom in the 1940s to accommodate the popular big bands of the day. An Olympic-sized swimming pool was built and championship tennis courts were added, with tennis champion Pancho Gonzalez as tennis director.
The hotel changed hands in 1958 and again in 1961, when it was purchased by a group of investors headed by Hernando Courtright.
The singer Elvis Presley and later the actor Warren Beatty lived several years in the hotel. It was also the home of John Lennon, when he was separated for several months from his wife Yoko Ono.
Actors: Marlee Matlin (actress), Eric Roberts (actor), Adam M. Stone (producer), Larry Brown (composer), Rachel Hunter (actress), Robert Miano (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Dan Winthrop (miscellaneous crew), Rick Avery (actor), Ric Mancini (actor), Bill Pugin (miscellaneous crew), Margery Kimbrough (miscellaneous crew), Desiree Varni (miscellaneous crew), David Glasser (producer), Robert Knott (actor),
Plot: Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack Reynolds, she eludes authorities by changing her identity and becoming the woman she wrote about in her book, Judith Anderson. To find the real killer, Susan goes undercover as a relay operator for the hearing impaired to contact District Attorney Beth McDaniels who is deaf. While relaying intimate phone conversations between Beth and her boyfriend Calvin, Susan discovers her own dark side when she becomes entangled in this voyeuristic world of deceit, intrigue and murder.
Keywords: author, deaf, district-attorney, falling-from-height, false-accusation, female-district-attorney, female-protagonist, independent-film, innocent-suspect, masked-killerActors: Christina Applegate (actress), Cliff De Young (actor), Alyssa Milano (actress), Frank Konigsberg (producer), Graham Jarvis (actor), Kimberly Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Perry (actor), Lewis Arquette (actor), Edie McClurg (actress), Alan Thicke (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Tracey Gold (actress), Caroline Sax (miscellaneous crew), Brian Bloom (actor), Louis G. Friedman (producer),
Plot: It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to. The adults also have there problems to contend with: Nancy and Larry must find out a way to patch up their marriage or get a divorce; Jack spends the night tracking down his son Dan to find out why he didn't go to the prom; and overprotective Ed and Ruth keep tabs on their daughter Angela throughout the night.
Keywords: 1980s, teenagerActors: John Bath (composer), Ted Leversuch (director), Bruno Doffo (editor), Bruno Doffo (producer), Susana Groisman (actress), Margot Stevens (writer), George Bayer (actor), John Ennis (producer), Sergio Regules (actor), Vincent Quondamateo (producer), Samuel Goldfarb (producer), Isreal Bak (actor), Freddie Deakin (actor), Romulo Boni (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Dirk de Villiers (actor), Joe Stewardson (writer), Sann de Lange (actress), Johan du Plooy (actor), Al Debbo (actor), Hal Orlandini (actor), Jaco van der Westhuizen (actor), Ralph Loubser (actor), Leonie Ross (actress), June Neethling (actress), Francis Coertze (actress), Hyman Kirstein (producer), Nico Carstens (actor), Nico Carstens (composer), Richard Daneel (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Michael Mark (actor), Gregg Martell (actor), Yul Brynner (actor), Jay Adler (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Lee J. Cobb (actor), Gene Coogan (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Paul Frees (actor), George Barrows (actor), Harry Hines (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Peter Leeds (actor), Len Lesser (actor), Stephen Roberts (actor),
Plot: Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, murder, patricide, remake, russia, russian-literatureActors: Pat Flaherty (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), David Dunbar (actor), James Bell (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Edward Clark (actor), James Flavin (actor),
Plot: Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian swimming sensation Annette Kellerman, who overcame childhood polio to go on and achieve fame as a professional swimmer and film star in the early decades of the 20th century. At the same time, she scandalized the world by wearing a one-piece bathing suit on public beaches long before the style was accepted in polite company, and made waves in other ways as well. The story was a perfect vehicle decades later to showcase the star quality of Esther Williams in the 1950s, and Kellerman's moniker was picked up by Life Magazine when it named Ms. Williams the "Million Dollar Mermaid" herself.
Keywords: airplane, airplane-crash, airplane-race, ballerina, ballet, boston-massachusetts, carnival, cheesecake, childhood, dancerActors: Charles McAvoy (actor), Richard Bartell (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Dane Clark (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Ray Montgomery (actor),
Plot: The killer Sammy and his driver Eddie Novoc accidentally run over Marie Willens while fleeing a murder scene. The pursuing detective Matt Hethron is sure that Eddie is guilty, but he cannot prove it. Instead of pressing his case, Hethron has Eddie begin caring for Marie who received a massive blood clot from the accident and does not have long to live. As time passes, Eddie finds himself falling in love with Marie. To raise the needed money for her care, Eddie starts blackmailing Sammy.
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Wilfred Lucas (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Robert Kent (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Eddie Coke (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), John Carradine (actor), Stepin Fetchit (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Francis McDonald (actor),
Plot: Dimples is a busker - a street entertainer, and lives in mid-19th century New York City's Bowery with her kindhearted but pickpocketing Grandfather, Prof. Eustace Appleby. Dimples is a talented child and is hired to perform at a party in the home of Mrs. Caroline Drew, an elderly widow living in Washington Square. Dimples delights the gathering and charms not only the elderly mistress of the house but her nephew Allen as well, a theatrical producer betrothed to a lovely society belle. Allen engages Dimples to perform the role of Little Eva in his production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" while Mrs. Drew makes it possible for Dimples to remain in her genteel home and enjoy its benefits. Various complications ensue and Dimples bravely makes the decision to sacrifice her happiness to return to her slum dwelling Grandfather. Mrs. Drew traces Dimples's whereabouts and convinces Prof. Appleby that his lovely granddaughter deserves something better than a life of poverty and crime in the Bowery. The situation is resolved to everyone's satisfaction and the film ends with Dimples performing in New York City's first minstrel show.
Keywords: 19th-century, adoption, aunt-nephew-relationship, blackface, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, con-man, courtship, family-relationships, fishing, grandfather-granddaughter-relationshipActors: Kit Guard (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Robert Fiske (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), George Cooper (actor), John Dilson (actor), Matty Fain (actor), Edward Hearn (actor),
Plot: A group of gangsters shoot Senator Benson (Wallis Clark) and take his daughter, Dorothy Benton (Muriel Evans) and her friend Ann Jason (Ann Doran) as hostages at Ma Barton's hideout. Reporter Jimmie Dugan (Roger Pryor) shows up disguised as a tramp.
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Plot: A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
Keywords: 1920s, archive-footage, b-movie, cigarette-smoking, damsel-in-distress, death, east-river, frame-up, gang-leader, gang-memberStanley Zarakov, Owner of Gateway Pawn and Jewelery in Yucca Valley, California, provides examples of mistakes he has made in the pawn business. He spends most of his time in front of his shop smoking cigars with friends.
The Pawnbroker (1964), directed by Sidney Lumet, was one of the first American films to address the Holocaust through the eyes of a survivor after the events. Highly influenced by the French New Wave
AP Television Beverly Hills, California, 2 December 2009 1. Wide of a palm tree-lined Beverly Hills street 2. Wide exterior of South Beverly Wilshire Jewellery and Loan 3. Mid of pawnbroker Yossi Dina taking cash from a client UPSOUND (English): "How much?" 4. Pan mid of jewellery on shop cabinet 5. Wide interior of South Beverly Wilshire Jewellery and Loan 6. Mid of Yossi Dina discussing pearl necklace with customer UPSOUND (English): "Go to a jewellery store, you pay crazy money. You can touch it." 7. Wide of Yossi Dina talking to customer UPSOUND (English): "The history for that." 8. Pull out of Yossi Dina discussing price of necklace with customer UPSOUND (English): "Like the look of the piece like that, it cost like fifty, sixty thousand dollars. I sell it for twenty or...
Rod Steiger tells Jaime Sánchez the secrets of Jewish business acumen.
A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. Director: Sidney Lumet Writers: Morton S. Fine (screenplay), David Friedkin (screenplay) Stars: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters More: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059575/
One of Sydney Lumet's first independent productions. The Pawnbroker helped re-establish artistic freedom in the movie production business and marked one of the first cracks in the Production Code. Rod Steiger was nominated for Best Actor for this riveting performance (losing to Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou!). Score by Quincy Jones. In this scene we see the lead character's concentration camp flashbacks cut with shots of Spanish Harlem violence.
“I don’t want to buy something cheaply and sell it for a high profit. I want you to get your goods back – that way, when you’ve got a need in the future, you’ll come back and borrow again.” Those are the comments of John Nichols, the chief executive of H&T; Group (LON:HAT), who explains how the business will move forward in the current tough climate for pawnbrokers. Nichols talks about the size of the Asian market and how pawnbroking has moved into the 21st century with tablets and smartphones.
One heart to trade or sell
One heart, an empty shell
Perhaps I'll stop in some pawnbrokers shop
And see what he might pay for second hand hearts today
Or old dreams I'll never use
Love songs I'd love to lose
Such worthless things
What scale could measure them
What other fool could be a fool like me and treasure them
Since you're gone I wear you on this heart