He owns the Philadelphia pawnbroker shop Carver W. Reed. When Gridley and Carly go to retrieve the candelabra, they find the pawnbroker murdered. The pawnbroker also sells items that have been sold outright to them by customers. He played a supporting role as the gangster Rodriguez in the 1964 film, "The Pawnbroker". The pawnbroker assumes the risk that an item might have been stolen. They change it into a pawnbroker and Tracy calls it "Barlow's Buys". Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The noise awakened John Murray, a pawnbroker and Marr's next-door neighbour. They then sold the frock to a pawnbroker. Delirious, he grabs Pauline's medal and attempts to sell it to pawnbroker Emma Getzel. Gordon was the son of a pawnbroker in Worcester, Massachusetts. An earlier example of psychodrama was "The Pawnbroker" in 1964, starring Rod Steiger. Elvis Presley was highly impressed with Steiger's "powerful and wrenching performance" in "The Pawnbroker". A pawnbroker can also be a charity. "The Pawnbroker" (1964) and "Kiss Me, Stupid" (1964).