The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

film by Cassavetes [1976]

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In John Cassavetes: Independent filmmaker: 1960s and ’70s
…filmmaking with the crime drama The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), in which Gazzara played the debt-ridden owner of a strip joint forced by the mob to commit a murder. The ambitious Opening Night (1977) also had its problems, including one that often plagued Cassavetes’s films, the perception of…
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