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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.

1974 · R · 1h 52m

Directed by Karel Reisz

6.7

TMDB audience score
138 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • Stuart Margolin
    Cowboy

  • Vic Tayback
    One

  • Antonio Fargas
    Pimp

  • William Andrews
    Basketball Coach

  • Steven Keats
    Howie

  • Starletta DuPois
    Monique

  • James Woods
    Bank Officer

  • London Lee
    Monkey

  • M. Emmet Walsh
    Las Vegas Gambler

  • Allan Rich
    Bernie