The Gambler

In this gripping 1974 crime drama, James Caan stars as Axel Freed, a seemingly upstanding English professor with a devastating secret: he's in the grip of a crippling gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him. As his debt spirals out of control, Freed finds himself trapped in a web of danger and deception, from the seedy underworld of Las Vegas to the ruthless mobsters who will stop at nothing to collect their due.