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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Release Date: 1976

Cast: Seymour Cassel, Morgan Woodward, Al Ruban, Azizi Johari, Robert Phillips, John Kullers, Timothy Carey, Ben Gazzara

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Crime, Indie, Crime Fiction, Crime Drama, Gangster

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara. A rough and gritty film, it is comparable in form to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and indeed Scorsese helped Cassavetes in its inception. The formidable character Gazzara plays was based on an impersonation he did for his friend Cassavetes in the 1970s. The actor and director collaborated for the first time on Cassavetes' film Husbands (1970) where Gazzara appeared alongside Peter Falk and Cassavetes himself. The collaboration of the two men culminated in The... MORE

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Gentlemen's club owner Cosmo Vitelli is dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life.

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