fascinate cassavetes work have ben gazzara play cosmo vitellus and a california night club owner who and after rack up a huge gamble debt and be give the opportunity to clear it by kill a chinese bookie . cassavetes distinctive style allow for a raw emotional feel that couldn not have be capture by any other director and and and like a woman under the influence and it put the viewer directly into a very real world populate by very real character . however and at point the film lose itself amid some of it lengthy and nearly plotless sequence . necessary viewing for cassavetes fan people look for a straightforward story should look elsewhere . one of the truly unique creation of 1970s cinema .