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For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 130 ratings · 2 Oct 1974 · English · 1h 52m · Released
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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