Storyline

Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in Los Angeles. He's laconic, vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt, after which, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for immediate payment. When he's not able to do so, they suggest he kill a Chinese bookie to wipe away his 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.—

Plot Keywords

strip club, nightclub, female nudity, public nudity, nipples, female frontal nudity, stripper, gambling debt, red panties, white panties, cleavage, blue panties, neo noir, chinatown, mobster, lingerie, scantily clad female, lighting a cigarette, black woman, red light

Short Review

The genre elements are mostly subterfuge because otherwise [Cassavetes would] basically be bleeding on the screen.

Trailer

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