Killing Of A Chinese Bookie. The

Crime drama directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey and Seymour Cassel. Cosmo Vitelli (Gazzara) owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California; he loves his girls and he loves his job. Trouble is, however, he also loves to gamble and this has resulted in a huge and ever-increasing debt to the mob.

So when he is offered the chance to clear his debt in one fell swoop he jumps at it - until he discovers that the job he must carry out is the murder of a man known only as 'The Chinese Bookie'.