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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
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.
1976 · Directed by John Cassavetes · 135 min · Thriller · Crime · Drama · 25 frames
Crew
- Written by: John Cassavetes
- Cinematography: Al Ruban, Mitch Breit
- Edited by: Tom Cornwell
- Music: Bo Harwood
- Production design: Sam Shaw
- Produced by: Al Ruban
Cast
- Ben Gazzara as Cosmo Vittelli
- Timothy Carey as Flo
- Seymour Cassel as Mort Weil
- Robert Phillips as Phil
- Morgan Woodward as The Boss
- Al Ruban as Marty Reitz
- Azizi Johari as Rachel
- Haji as Haji
- Alice Friedland as Sherry
- Derna Wylde as Derna
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Faces International Films, Al Ruban Productions
- Themes: gambling debt, striptease, strip club, coercion, mobster, gunshot wound, debt collector, los angeles, california, strip tease, mob hit
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