The Gambler

The Gambler

6.7IMDb Score
Released:1974-10-02
Duration:111 min
Director:Karel Reisz
Actors:James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes
Production:Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films

Overview:

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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