The Gambler

The Gambler

The Gambler

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1974•111 min•DramaCrime

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James Caan

Axel

Paul Sorvino

Hips

Lauren Hutton

Billie

Morris Carnovsky

A. R. Lowenthal

Jacqueline Brookes

Naomi

Burt Young

Carmine

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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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