The Gambler
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
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.
- Year: 1974
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Studio: Paramount Pictures, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
- Keyword: gambling, professor, money, mafia, debt
- Director: Karel Reisz
- Cast: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes, Burt Young