Hollywood movie fans certainly will be looking forward to when her favorite movie was released. I give the following information when your favorite movie will be released.
The 2015 movie release schedule
is starting to fill up as Hollywood studios announce their upcoming
release slates. one of which will be released early this year is the gambler.
The Gambler is a 1974 drama film written by James Toback and directed by Karel Reisz. It stars James Caan, Paul Sorvino and Lauren Hutton. Toback wrote it as a fictional story using his own teaching career and gambling addiction as inspiration.
Summary of the story the gambler.
The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei
Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a
German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to
the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay
only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his
wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and
awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his
debts and gain Mademoiselle De Cominges's hand in marriage.
Alexei is hopelessly in love with Polina, the General's stepdaughter,
and swears an oath of servitude to her. He told her while on a walk on
the Schlangenberg
(a mountain in the German town) that all she had to do was give the
word and he would gladly walk off the edge and plummet to his death.
This leads to her asking him to go to the town's casino and place a bet
for her. He refuses at first but, when goaded and reminded of his oath
of undying love and servility, he succumbs and ends up winning at the
roulette table. He returns to her the winnings but she will not tell him
the reason she needs money. She only laughs in his face (as she does
when he professes his love) and treats him with cold indifference, if
not downright malice. He only learns the details of The General's and
Polina's financial state later in the story through his long-time
acquaintance, Mr. Astley. Astley is a shy Englishman who seems to share
Alexei's fondness of Polina. He comes from English nobility and has a
good deal of money.
One day while Polina and Alexei are on a walk they see a Baron and
Baroness. Polina dares him to insult the aristocratic couple and he does
so with little hesitation. This sets off a chain of events that details
Madame de Cominges's interest in the General and gets Alexei fired as
tutor of the General's children. Shortly after this, Grandmother shows
up and surprises the whole party of debtors and indebted. She tells them
all that she knows all about the General's debt and why the French man
and woman are waiting around the suite day after day. She leaves the
party of death-profiteers by saying that none of them are getting any of
her money. She then asks Alexei to be her guide around the town famous
for its healing waters and infamous for its casino where the tables are
stacked with piles of gold; she wants to gamble.
After being ushered to the roulette table, she plays and wins a
significant amount of money. After a short return to the hotel, she
comes back to roulette tables and she starts to get the bug; before she
leaves the town, she's lost almost a hundred thousand roubles. When
Alexei gets back to his room after sending Grandmother off at the
railway station, he's greeted by Polina. She tells him that Des Grieux
had left town but not before he absolved the General from a certain
moiety of the mortgages on his property. She then explains that because
she was indebted to him she couldn't return Alexei's love. Upon hearing
this, Alexei runs out of the room and to the casino where he wins over
two hundred thousand roubles and becomes a rich man. When he gets back
to his room and the waiting Polina, he empties his pockets full of gold
and bank notes onto the bed. They fall asleep on the couch and the next
day she tells Alexei that she hates him and wants to be with Mr. Astley
(they had been secretly meeting and exchanging notes and she was
supposed to meet him but had fallen asleep in his room). She runs out of
the hotel and he doesn't see her again.
After learning that the general wouldn't be getting his inheritance,
Madame de Cominges leaves the hotel with her mother for Paris. Alexei
goes with them, having won a significant amount and they stay together
for a month, he allowing them to spend his entire fortune on horses and
frivolous balls.
Alexei starts to gamble to survive. One day he passes Mr. Astley on a park bench in Bad Homburg
and has a talk with him. He finds out from Astley that Polina is in
Switzerland and actually does love him. Astley gives him some money but
shows little hope that he will not use it for gambling. Alexei goes home
dreaming of going to Switzerland the next day and recollects what made
him win at the roulette tables in the past.

No comments:
Post a Comment