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Quick Info

Rating

6.7/10

Release1974

Runtime1h 51m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Paramount Pictures

Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Movie

The Gambler

1974

1h 51m

6.7

Drama

Crime

Synopsis

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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