- HD 1080
- Runtime: 111m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Karel Reisz
- Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes
- keywords: gambling, professor, money, mafia, debt
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
- Slogan: For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
- The The Gambler is featured in the top rankings of 1974
- #52 in Top Drama Movies of 1974
- #21 in Top Crime Movies of 1974
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.