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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Directed by
John Cassavetes
R
1976
2h 15m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
7.2
79%
82%
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A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
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Cast of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Ben Gazzara
Cosmo Vittelli
Timothy Carey
Flo
Seymour Cassel
Mort Weil
Robert Phillips
Phil
Morgan Woodward
The Boss
Al Ruban
Marty Reitz / Producer
Azizi Johari
Rachel
Haji
Haji
Alice Friedland
Sherry
Derna Wylde
Derna
Virginia Carrington
Mama
Carolyn Warren
Carol
John Kullers
The Accountant
Donna Gordon
Margo Donnar
Meade Roberts
Mr. Sophistication
Kathalina Veniero
Annie
Yvette Morris
Yvette
Jack Ackerman
Musical Director
David Rowlands
Lamarr
Trisha Pelham
Waitress
Eddie Shaw
Taxi Driver
Sonny Aprile
Sonny
Gene Darcy
Commodore
Ben Marino
Bartender
Arlene Allison
Waitress
Vincent Barbi
Vince
Val Avery
Blair Benoit
Elizabeth Deering
Lavinia
Soto Joe Hugh
Chinese Bookie
Catherine Wong
The Bookie's Girl
John Finnegan
Taxi Driver
Miles Ciletti
Mickey
Mike Skloot
Scooper
Frank Buchanan
Flo's Friend
Jason Kincaid
Parking Lot Attendant
Frank Thomas
Poker Player
Jack Krupnick
Poker Player
James Lew
Guard (uncredited)
John Cassavetes
Director / Writer
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Ratings & Reviews
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
The genre elements are mostly subterfuge because otherwise [Cassavetes would] basically be bleeding on the screen.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
Gazzara exudes cool and calm while also stinking of panic.
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A.S. Hamrah
In Mr. Sophistication, Meade Roberts, a screenwriter Cassavetes tapped to act, created an unforgettable figure.
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
This was [John] Cassavetes' gift. As challenging as his films can be, he found humanity in gangsters and villains as well as in regular guys.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
This was Cassavetes' attempt to make a film with more commercial elements, but the melding of a conventional narrative with his own abstract musings doesn't completely work.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
When Cassavetes is really cooking, even the moments that are awkward and forced can become electric.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
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
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
This is my favorite John Cassavetes movie, perhaps because it's the most appealingly sleazy.
TV Guide
Cassavetes' films can be annoying and enigmatic, but they are usually creative and interesting. Not so with this one.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Watching the film is like listening to someone use a lot of impressive words, the meanings of which are just wrong enough to keep you in a state of total confusion, but occasionally right enough to hold your attention. What is he trying to say?
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Gazzara plays a strip-club owner committed to staging sad, unsexy, decidedly personal semi-nude musical revues.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Heavy stuff, but it takes its sweet sweet time in getting to the point.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Jake Euker
Its only interest now is in its representation of its era.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A postnoir masterpiece.
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