The Gambler (1974)
"For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000."
ThumbScore
👍 75%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 74%
(RT: 82%, MC: 65) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is The Gambler good?
Most people think so. 75% audience score, estimated from 138 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 74%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
