The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

21
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 27 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 16717 16.7K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

John Cassavetes Photo
John Cassavetes

Top cast

Seymour Cassel Photo
Seymour Cassel as Mort Weil
Val Avery Photo
Val Avery as Blair Benoit
Meade Roberts Photo
Meade Roberts as Mr. Sophistication
Morgan Woodward Photo
Morgan Woodward as The Boss
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.13 GB
1280*682
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 8
2.06 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 43

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Shioka O 5 / 10

A silly men's story and it's all about

A silly men's story and it's all about style. less structure more indie and self-indulgent.
Reviewed by Anson L 10 / 10

It's rather like a shaggy dog story operating

It's rather like a shaggy dog story operating inside a chase movie. Chinese Bookie is the more insouciant, involuted and unfathomable of the two; the curdled charm of Gazzara's lopsided grin has never been more to the point.
Reviewed by Leprechaun K 7 / 10

No other director capture raw emotion like Cassavetes

No other director capture raw emotion like Cassavetes. It is no exception with this film. Wonderfully directed and fantastic performance by Gazzara. It encompasses all the signature elements of a Cassavetes film.
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