Gambler - DVD

Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg delivers a career-defining performance as Jim Bennett, an English professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler. When Jim borrows money from dangerous gangsters, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger. With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all. John Goodman, Brie Larson and Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange star in the thrilling film critics are calling gritty, intense and wholly engrossing.

Gambler; DVD; Director - Rupert Wyatt - In this remake of the James Caan 1974 vehicle THE GAMBLER, an English professor (Mark Wahlberg) who is also a compulsive gambler finds that the only people who will have anything to do with him are those to whom he owes money. Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a lecturer reeling from the death of his beloved grandfather (George Kennedy).

GAMBLER AND THE LADY (1952) A gambling kingpin's goal is to be accepted by high society. He leaves his girlfriend for a socialite, is swindled in a scam, strong-armed by gangsters, and ends up as a hood ornament on his gilted loverInchs sedan! HEAT WAVE (1954) Fearful of getting cut from her ailing husband's will, a femme fatale entangles a down and out writer in a scheme to murder her husband.