The Gambler
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Directed by Karel Reisz
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
James CaanAxel
Paul SorvinoHips
Lauren HuttonBillie
Morris CarnovskyA. R. Lowenthal
Jacqueline BrookesNaomi
Burt YoungCarmine
Carmine CaridiJimmy
Carl W. CrudupSpencer
Stuart MargolinCowboy
Vic TaybackOne
Antonio FargasPimp
William AndrewsBasketball CoachExplore the crew
- Producer
- Irwin Winkler
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Fielding
- Producer
- Robert Chartoff
- Director of Photography
- Victor J. Kemper
- Director
- Karel Reisz
- Writer
- James Toback
- Editor
- Roger Spottiswoode