The Gambler

Name: The Gambler
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: October 2, 1974
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Burt Young, Carmine Caridi, Jacqueline Brookes, James Caan, Lauren Hutton

1974

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 2, 1974 | R

Starring: Burt Young, Carmine Caridi, Jacqueline Brookes, James Caan, Lauren Hutton, London Lee, Morris Carnovsky, Paul Sorvino, Steven Keats, Vic Tayback

Summary: Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Director: Karel Reisz

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Roger Ebert

Axel Freed, as played by James Caan, is himself a totally convincing personality, and original. He doesn’t derive from other gambling movies or even from other roles he’s played. Read full review

Judith Crist

The Gambler is a perceptive and remarkably paced drama, with director Karel Reisz in full command of his medium. [07 Oct 1974, p.93]

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The Gambler is a compelling and effective film. James Caan is excellent and the featured players are superb. However, it is somewhat overlong in early exposition and has one climax too many. Read full review

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Reisz's direction is panoramic, with aspirations towards the epic, when it should have been closer in and faster. The result is a highly melodramatic and romantic film, for all the veneer of disillusion, whose weighty statement too often swamps the potentially strong suspense. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Mr. Caan is generally convincing, except in those classroom scenes, but all of the other actors, with the exception of James Sorvino who plays a sympathetic bookie, seem defeated by the quality of the material. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The script, by James Toback, is a grandiloquent, egocentric novel written as a film; it spells everything out, and the director Karel Reisz's literal-minded, proficient style calls attention to how airless and schematic it is.

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