For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
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.
October 2, 1974
Paramount Pictures, Winkler Films
45 people
James Caan
Axel
Acting
Paul Sorvino
Hips
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Lauren Hutton
Billie
Acting
Morris Carnovsky
A. R. Lowenthal
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Jacqueline Brookes
Naomi
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Burt Young
Carmine
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Carmine Caridi
Jimmy
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Carl W. Crudup
Spencer
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Stuart Margolin
Cowboy
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Vic Tayback
One
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Antonio Fargas
Pimp
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William Andrews
Basketball Coach
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