

For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
October 2, 1974
1h 51m
EN
Karel Reisz
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.

James Caan
Axel

Paul Sorvino
Hips

Lauren Hutton
Billie

Morris Carnovsky
A. R. Lowenthal



James Toback
128
Jacqueline Brookes
Naomi

Burt Young
Carmine

Carmine Caridi
Jimmy

Carl W. Crudup
Spencer

Stuart Margolin
Cowboy

Vic Tayback
One

Paramount Pictures
US

Winkler Films
US