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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Runtime
2hrs 15mins
Directed by
John Cassavetes
Featuring
Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel
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John Cassavetes engages with film noir in his own inimitable style with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

Ben Gazzara brilliantly portrays a gentleman’s club owner, Cosmo Vitelli, desperately committed to maintaining a facade of suave gentility despite the seediness of his environment and his own unhealthy appetites. When he runs afoul of loan sharks, Cosmo must carry out a terrible crime or lose his way of life. Mesmerizing and idiosyncratic, the film is a provocative examination of masculine identity.

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