The Pawnbroker

Sol?

Solly?

I just made some fresh

lemonade, Solly.

It's going to be a nice day.

Not too hot.

Ohh!

Your back again, papa?

Aww.

Why don't you move

into the shade, Sol?

Good morning, uncle Sol.

Mother, I was thinking.

If we could only afford it, Danish

modern would be so perfect.

Solly?

The editorial section.

So, Solly...

What do you think, huh?

About what?

What I told you at brunch.

After all, you live here, too.

You're paying for it.

It really is up to you.

Buy it and keep it.

What?

I said buy it...

Keep it...

The AM-FM television.

That's not what I mean. I mean

about the trip to Europe.

I don't wanna be...

Turn it down, joan.

This music bother you, uncle Sol?

You sure you wouldn't

like some lemonade?

Did you sleep long enough, my son?

I wasn't sleeping.

No. He was drawing his

pornographic pictures.

Give me that!

Oh, look at it!

My god! Look!

It's a nude girl!

Look at that, uncle Sol!

My god!

What have you been doing?

Ha ha!

Give it back to me!

Look what your son's been doing!

Don't you know girls aren't built that way!

All right!

Enough already, will you?

Why can't you leave me alone?

As soon as you come around, my son,

There's a disturbance.

Morton, comb your hair, Morton.

You look like some

kind of character

With your hair like that.

Edward's picking me

up in 10 minutes,

And I don't want you

to frighten him.

What happens to the time?

25 years.

Do you realize it, Sol?

Do I realize what?

25 years next thursday.

Did you know that, Sol?

Yes.

My sister.

My poor sister Ruth.

Mother.

25 years.

My sister Ruth was

beautiful like a picture.

Uncle Solly knows how

beautiful, mother.

He was married to her.

Sol, all you have to

do is say yes or no.

A final yes or no.

A final yes or no about what?

The trip to Europe.

You want to go to Europe, Bertha?

Not me, so much,

But they have family plans now,

So why not?

It's a 17-day tour.

And why do you want

to go to Europe?

Mostly, it's him.

He says it'd be very good

For his standing with

the school board.

And he's always wanted

to visit there, anyhow.

The shrines and the old cities...

There's an atmosphere

we don't have here.

Something mellow.

Age lends its own charm.

Why, you can almost

smell the difference.

It's rather like a

stink if I remember.

All esta tu jefe, Jesus!

No spanish, mama.

No spanish.

English.

You hurry now.

Couple of weeks working for him

Ain't long enough

for you to be late.

Mama, you know what

your trouble is?

You know your trouble?

You worry!

You worry.

Now, me, I don't worry, mama.

You know why?

Because I am going

a long way, mama.

Yeah! A long way.

Jesus...

No more trouble.

No more things like that, Jesus.

No. No more, mama.

No more stealing, no more numbers,

No more peddling, no more nothing.

Strictly legit, ok?

Ok.

Mister?

How much will you give me for this?

I'm here!

Let the business now commence.

Ah, come on, now, Mr. Nazerman.

Don't look that way, now.

Listen, I'm going to insist...

I insist you dock me

exactly 20 minutes I late.

On the other hand,

I'll work so hard for

the next few hours

That you'll wind up giving

me time and a half.

To start with, I'm going

to open the front.

It's an award for oratory.

I won it in a citywide

oratorical contest

Five years ago.

It's gold.

$1.00.

$1.00 for an important

award like this?

20,000 started.

50 semifinalists, and I won.

I recited "the raven."

I was 1 of 20,000.

$1.00. Still at the same address?

Uh-huh.

But it's gold.

Plate. $1.00.

Man the lifeboats!

Here I is again.

All right.

Gimme a dollar.

Honest and true,

It's like bailing out

an old leaky boat

Filled with holes.

You pawn something,

You buy something else,

and then you pawn that.

Each time, the boat's gettin'

deeper into the water.

Ha ha! Ain't it a wonder

a body stay afloat

As long as it do?

Aw, come on, Mr. Nazerman.

Smile.

Here I am with a load

of profit for you.

They's heirloom.

Makes a table look like a table.

I'll sell them for $10 a pair.

$2.00.

My goodness!

Why, these candlesticks

is very high quality.

Cost $25 when new.

Now, I could get $15 easy

down at Triboro pawn.

I suggest, mrs. Harmon,

That you take them

down to triboro pawn.

Ha ha ha!

You a merciless man for sure.

$2.00!

Oh, I'm too pooped to

haggle, Mr. Nazerman.

Sold!

Oh, you's a hard man.

God pity you.

He's the only judge, after all.

Be seeing you again, Mr. Nazerman,

And that's for sure.

Take care now, you hear?

Wait a minute, mrs. Harmon.

You forgot your ticket,

And you forgot your $2.00.

You know, I've been thinking.

Them suits in the back?

I'll make a list of them,

First according to the size,

And then another one

according to condition,

And then the type.

You know, what I mean by that

Is summer or serge or gabardine.

You know, that way any

suit anybody wants,

Pow! Put my finger

on it right away.

I'm just filled with

good ideas, man.

Good morning, Mr. Nazerman.

Good morning.

$2.00.

Quite incidentally, Mr. Nazerman,

I've just been reading a

very remarkable book...

Herbert Spencer's

genesis of science.

Yes, but then you

probably know it well.

It's a very good book.

I- I particularly

like his insistence

That science is born of art,

Not the other way around.

To me, this was refreshing,

Coming from a man

That most modern thinkers

called old-fashioned.

Did any of your

students think of that

While you were at Leipzig?

But Spencer didn't come up with

anything very new, really.

Pythagoras, an artist at heart

And a great lover of music,

Made the discovery that

the pitch of sound

Depends upon the length

of the vibrating string.

That was six centuries

before Christ.

I... I, uh...

From time to time,

I like to drop in here

Because, Mr. Nazerman,

A man gets hungry for talk.

Good talk.

There's your ticket,

and there's your $2.00.

Mr. Nazerman...

$2.00 will be...

quite all right.

I...

I apologize for talking

so much, Mr. Nazerman.

D- d-did...

Forgive me.

Yes?

Nazerman?

How's business, Nazerman?

Business is the same as usual.

We spend more money

than we take in.

Good. Pretty soon Uncle Sam

will have to pay us money,

Subsidize us.

Can't expect taxes from a

losing business, can they?

Ha ha ha!

That's funny, huh?

That's pretty funny, huh?

I asked you a question, professor.

Pawnshop.

Nazerman?

Yes, sir.

It's for you.

Yes?

We get disconnected or something?

No. I hung up.

The word professor.

I don't like it.

You were a professor

once, weren't you?

What about that?

I asked you a question, nazerman.

I don't like the word

professor from you.

I don't like the way you say it.

Something else bothering you?

Listen...

There'll be a new man

in later tonight.

He'll give you an estimate

for some repair work.

You give him a check.

He'll give you your change in cash.

What's his name?

Savarese.

You be there, professor.

Good morning.

My name is Marilyn Birchfield.

I'm introducing myself around.

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