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.

Director

Karel Reisz

Writer

James Toback

Producer

Irwin Winkler

Producer

Robert Chartoff

Original Music Composer

Jerry Fielding

Director of Photography

Victor J. Kemper