The Gambler
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
Director Karel Reisz
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
Burt Young
Carmine
Vic Tayback
One
Allan Rich
Bernie
Lucille Patton
Ricky's Wife
Beatrice Winde
Hospital Receptionist
Starletta DuPois
Monique
Carl W. Crudup
Spencer
Steven Keats
Howie
Leon Pinkney
Street Basketball Boy
Jerry Leon
Harlem Bar Patron (uncredited)
Morris Carnovsky
A. R. Lowenthal
Carmine Caridi
Jimmy
James Woods
Bank Officer
M. Emmet Walsh
Las Vegas Gambler
Paul Sorvino
Hips
Lauren Hutton
Billie
William Andrews
Basketball Coach
Frank Adonis
Man in Park with Donny
Melanie Mayron
Student (uncredited)
James Caan
Axel
Jacqueline Brookes
Naomi
Stuart Margolin
Cowboy
Raymond Serra
Benny
Richard Foronjy
Donny
Philip Sterling
Sidney
Antonio Fargas
Pimp
Sully Boyar
Uncle Hy
Frank Sivero
Donny's Driver
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Street Basketball Boy (uncredited)