The Great Gambler (1979)

19792h 45mdir. Shakti SamantaHindiIndiacrime film

Note: this print runs 165 minutes against a recorded 105 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh

Directed by Shakti Samanta

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The Great Gambler is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language crime action film co-written, directed and produced by Shakti Samanta, under his banner of Shakti Films. Based on Vikramaditya's Bengali novel Great Gambler, the film stars Amitabh Bachchan in dual roles, alongside Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Prem Chopra, Utpal Dutt and Madan Puri in pivotal roles. Its story follows international gangsters, spies, and secret agents of different countries' intelligence agencies and their undercover operations.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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