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MPAA Raing: R
Director: John Cassavetes
Genres: Crime Drama, Crime
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Summary:
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). Si... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Ben Gazzara - (Cosmo Vitelli)
Timothy Carey - (Flo)
Azizi Johari - (Rachel)
Meade Roberts - (Mr. Sophistication)
Seymour Cassel - (Mort Weil)
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Review:
John_Cassavetes's elliptical mid-1970s picture walks a fine line between self-indulgent and inventive. Fascinating in its originality, the film is somewhat undercut by an unsteady blend of naturalism and artifice. Originally developed with Martin_Scorsese, the movie is ostensibly a gangster film, but the genre is bent into a demented charac... Continue >>

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