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The Gambler · 1974

The Gambler

«For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.»

Karel Reisz · 112 min · United States of America

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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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6.7

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Production companies
Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films

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Nueva York Área metropolitana de Las Vegas
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Nueva York Imperio ruso

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