The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Movie

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

Date: 02/15/1976

Rating: 7.1

Cast: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips, Morgan Woodward, Al Ruban, Azizi Johari, Haji, Alice Friedland, Derna Wylde, Virginia Carrington, Carolyn Warren, John Kullers, Donna Gordon, Meade Roberts, 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, James Lew

Ben Gazzara