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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Directed by John Cassavetes
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Overview
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn’t able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
Rated R | Length 135 minutes
Actors
Ben Gazzara | Timothy Carey | Seymour Cassel | Robert Phillips | Morgan Woodward | Al Ruban | Azizi Johari | Haji | Alice Friedland | Derna Wylde | Virginia Carrington | Carolyn Warren | John Kullers | Donna Gordon | Meade Roberts | Kathalina Veniero | Yvette Morris | Jack Ackerman | David Rowlands | Trisha Pelham | Eddie Shaw | Sonny Aprile | Gene Darcy | Ben Marino | Arlene Allison | Vincent Barbi | Val Avery | Elizabeth Deering | Soto Joe Hugh | Catherine Wong | John P. Finnegan | Miles Ciletti | Mike Skloot | Frank Buchanan | Jason Kincaid | Frank Thomas | Jack Krupnick | James Lew