What's winning got to do with it? We review the The Gambler by Dostoyevsky and the classic 1974 crime drama very loosely based on it, directed by Karel Reisz and written by James Toback, starring James Caan as a literature professor who seems to have everything a man could possibly want. Except...
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What's winning got to do with it? We review the The Gambler by Dostoyevsky and the classic 1974 crime drama very loosely based on it, directed by Karel Reisz and written by James Toback, starring James Caan as a literature professor who seems to have everything a man could possibly want. Except...
This is a preview. For the full 90 minute episode, in audio and video, get a free trial subscription to our Patreon at patreon.com/thebackwall and support the only show that takes a cultural-literary scalpel to the world of sport, it’s deepest darkest moments, its wildest scandals, it’s relevance to psyches and cities and changes to society, and its politics from a non stupid perspective.