The Gambler (1974)

Crime Drama

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.

Updated May 12 2020

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US -

1974-08-01

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Keywords:

gambling professor gambling debts compulsive gambling mafia money debt

FACTS

Runtime: 111 mins Rating: 6.6 Tag Line: For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.

Cast

M. Emmet Walsh

Las Vegas gambler

James Caan

Axel Freed

James Woods

Bank officer

Burt Young

Carmine

Paul Sorvino

Hips

Vic Tayback

One

Lauren Hutton

Billie

Morris Carnovsky

A. R. Lowenthal