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Released
1974 · FILM

The Gambler

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

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Written by
Runtime
111 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

Axel Freed is a New York City English professor who appears to be an upstanding citizen. However, he is secretly struggling with a severe gambling addiction that puts him at risk of self-destruction.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Roger SpottiswoodeShot by Victor J KemperScored by Jerry FieldingDesigned by Philip Rosenberg

Also known as

  • Spieler ohne Skrupelde
  • Le Flambeurfr
  • 40.000 dollari per non morireit

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