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Actors: Ben Gazzara
, Timothy Carey
, Azizi Johari
, Meade Roberts
, Seymour Cassel
, Alice Friedland
, Donna Gordon
, Robert Phillips
, Morgan Woodward
, Virginia Carrington
, John Kullers
, Al Ruban
, Soto Joe Hugh
, Jack Ackerman
, Val Avery
, Vincent Barbi
, Jean-Pierre Cassel
, Elizabeth Deering
, John Finnegan
, Haji
, David Rowlands
, Hugo Soto
, Frank Thomas
, Kathalina Veniero
, Jason Kincaid
, Gene Darcy
, Benny Marino
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Directed by: John Cassavetes
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Description: John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama in A Woman Under the Influence with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara plays Cosmo Vitelli, the owner of a sleazy Los Angeles strip joint, who loses $20,000 at a mob gambling club owned by a small time gangster (Seymour Cassel). Since Cosmo doesn't have the $20,000, he is forced to murder a Chinese bookie in order to clear his debt to the mob. What Cosmo doesn't know is he's part of a set-up. The bookie is actually a West Coast mob boss protected around the clock by bodyguards. The mobsters figure that Cosmo will be killed in an impossible hit and they can take over his nightclub. But Cosmo proves luckier than the mobsters think -- he manages to kill his target, and now the mobsters have to track down Cosmo and kill him. Initially, at 133 minutes, the movie was subsequently re-edited by Cassavetes to 109 minutes. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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