FOR $10,000 THEY BREAK YOUR ARMS. FOR $20,000 THEY BREAK YOUR LEGS. AXEL FREED OWES $44,000. New York City literature professor Axel Freed (James Caan) has a big gambling debt and turns to his mother (Jacqueline Brookes) for help. James Toback wrote this movie while fighting a gambling addiction, Caan starred in it while battling […]