The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Directors

John Cassavetes

Cast

Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Morgan Woodward, John Kullers, Al Ruban, Azizi Johari, Virginia Carrington, Meade Roberts, Alice Friedland, Donna Gordon, Haji, Carol Warren, Derna Wong Davis, 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 Finnegan, Miles Ciletti, Mike Skloot, Frank Buchanan, Jason Kincaid, Frank Thomas, Jack Krupnick, Robert Phillips

The story

Cosmo Vittelli owns and operates a strip club, Crazy Horse West, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Though Cosmo spends a great deal of time and effort designing and choreographing the venue's artistic burlesque act, he fears his customers are there only to see the naked bodies of his strippers. Cosmo makes the final payment on a seven-year gambling debt to a loan shark named Marty, and in return invites him and his mob associates to the club's night act.

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