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For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
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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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Directed by: Karel Reisz, Victor J. Kemper
Written by: James Toback
Produced by: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Composed by: Jerry Fielding
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