The Gambler

Name: The Gambler
Director: Karel Reisz
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1974-10-02
Rating: 6.7
Cast: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes

“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.