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Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California. He's laconic, a Korean War vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt. Then, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker at an illegal local casino. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for immediate payment. Then they suggest that he kill a Chinese bookie to wipe off the debt. Vitelli and the film move back and forth between the double-crossing, murderous insincerity of the gamblers and the friendships, sweetness, and even love among Vitelli, the dancers, a dancer's mother, and the club's singer, Mr. Sophistication.
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| Ben Gazzara |
(Cosmo Vitelli) |
| Timothy Carey |
(Flo (Gangster) (as Timothy Agoglia...) |
| Seymour Cassel |
(Mort Weil (Gangster)) |
| Robert Phillips |
(Phil (Gangster)) |
| Morgan Woodward |
(John (Head gangster)) |
| John Kullers |
(Eddie-Red (as John Red Kullers)) |
| Al Ruban |
(Marty Reitz (Gangster)) |
| Azizi Johari |
(Rachel) |
| Virginia Carrington |
(Betty, the mother) |
| Meade Roberts |
(Mr. Sophistication) |
| Alice Fredlund |
(Sherry) |
| Donna Gordon |
(Margo Donnar (as Donna Marie Gordon)) |
| Haji |
(Haji) |
| Carol Warren |
(Carol) |
| Derna Wong Davis |
(Derna) |
| Kathalina Veniero |
(Annie) |
| Yvette Morris |
(Yvette) |
| Jack Ackerman |
(Musical director) |
| David Rowlands |
(Lamarr) |
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| Trisha Pelham |
(Waitress) |
| Eddie Shaw |
(Taxi Driver (as Eddie Ike Shaw)) |
| Sonny Aprile |
(Sonny (as Salvatore Aprile)) |
| Gene Darcy |
(Commodore) |
| Ben Marino |
(Bartender) |
| Arlene Allison |
(Waitress) |
| Vincent Barbi |
(Vince (as Vince Barbi)) |
| Val Avery |
(Blair Benoit) |
| Elizabeth Deering |
(Lavinia) |
| Soto Joe Hugh |
(Chinese Bookie (as Soto Joe Hugh)) |
| Catherine Wong |
(The Bookie's Girl) |
| John Finnegan |
(Taxi Driver) |
| Miles Ciletti |
(Mickey) |
| Mike Skloot |
(Scooper) |
| Frank Buchanan |
(Flo's Friend) |
| Jason Kincaid |
(Parking Lot Attendant) |
| Frank M. Thomas |
(Poker Player (as Frank Thomas)) |
| Jack Krupnick |
(Poker Player) |
| John Pappas |
(Bartender (uncredited)) |
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