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The Gambler

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

DramaCrime

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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Cast

James CaanPaul SorvinoLauren HuttonMorris CarnovskyJacqueline BrookesBurt YoungCarmine CaridiCarl W. CrudupStuart MargolinVic TaybackAntonio FargasWilliam Andrews

Director

Karel Reisz

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