MOVIE
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.
ERA & CONTEXT
The Gambler in its release era
Released in 1974, The Gambler sits inside the 1970s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 1974-10-02
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 6.7/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United States of America
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films
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