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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- James CaanAxel
- Paul SorvinoHips
- Lauren HuttonBillie
- Morris CarnovskyA. R. Lowenthal
- Jacqueline BrookesNaomi
- Burt YoungCarmine
- Carmine CaridiJimmy
- Carl W. CrudupSpencer
- Stuart MargolinCowboy
- Vic TaybackOne
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- Karel ReiszDirector
- James TobackWriter
- Victor J. KemperDirector of Photography
- Jerry FieldingOriginal Music Composer
- Roger SpottiswoodeEditor
- Irwin WinklerProducer
- Robert ChartoffProducer
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