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Dominican Rep. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
- Original title
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
- Year
- 1976
- Running time
- 135 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Ben Gazzara
Timothy Carey
Seymour Cassel- Azizi Johari
- Al Ruban
- Virginia Carrington
- Meade Roberts
- Alice Friedland
- Donna Gordon
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Crime. Neo-noir. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California. He's laconic, a Korean War vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt. Then, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker at an illegal local casino. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for immediate payment. Then they suggest that he kill a Chinese bookie to wipe off the debt. Vitelli and the film move back and forth between the double-crossing, murderous insincerity of the gamblers and the friendships, sweetness, and even love among Vitelli and the people around him.
- Critics' reviews
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"A Mini-Chinatown! Visually stunning and stylistically extravagant!"
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"John Cassavetes, who made much of his money performing in action films, put that experience to work as the director of this hard, brooding crime drama"
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"There's no cinematography credit, which suggests Cassavetes either added that hat to his writer-director wardrobe, or the real culprit left town ahead of the posse."
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