The Gambler
Oct 02, 1974 | IMDB 6.7
111 min Watch NowDrama, Crime
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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