“Gamblers know how a man can sit for almost 24 hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky knew a thing or two about gambling. One of Russia’s greatest men of letters, the author’s obsession with wagering informed much of his work; most famously the 1867 novella The Gambler.
Writer-director James Toback is both a great admire…
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