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The Gambler

For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
Oct 2, 1974 · 1h 52m
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Drama
Crime

PLOT

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

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CAST

James Caan
Axel
Paul Sorvino
Hips
Lauren Hutton
Billie
Morris Carnovsky
A. R. Lowenthal
Jacqueline Brookes
Naomi
Burt Young
Carmine
Carmine Caridi
Jimmy
Carl W. Crudup
Spencer
Directed by Karel Reisz

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films
Country
US

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