Nineteenth-century period drama. A rent collector in South Shields, dissatisfied with his life, decides to use his talents as a card player to improve his situation. His gambling skills enable him to purchase a boatyard and marry his childhood sweetheart. But beneath his success is a tangled web of lies and deceit.
Catherine Cookson's the Gambling Man is a Film programme that first aired in 1995 and has been classified a 12 certificate.
