Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- gambling debt
- striptease
- strip club
- coercion
- mobster
- gunshot wound
- debt collector
- los angeles
- california
- strip tease
- mob hit
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Morgan Woodward — The Boss
- Al Ruban — Marty Reitz
- Azizi Johari — Rachel
- Haji — Haji
- Alice Friedland — Sherry
- Derna Wylde — Derna
- Virginia Carrington — Mama
- Carolyn Warren — Carol
- John Kullers — The Accountant
- Donna Gordon — Margo Donnar
- Meade Roberts — Mr. Sophistication
- Directed
- John Cassavetes
- Written
- John Cassavetes
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 302 ratings
- Studio
- Faces International Films, Al Ruban Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
