The Gambler
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
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10/2/1974Runtime
111 minsOverview
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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A taut descent into the psychology of compulsion, watching a man's respectable life unravel under the weight of escalating debts and the predatory forces closing in. The film is less interested in gambling itself than in the spiraling delusion and dread that addiction breeds.
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