The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

An avante garde thriller, directed by John Cassavetes, from the 1970's. A night club owner Cosmo Vittelli (Ben Gazzara), in debt to gangsters, is asked to murder someone else who owes them money.

I can't really recommend the film to anyone much: Vittelli owns possibly the most awful night club I've ever seen, everyone channelling Bertolt Brecht (I actually fast-forwarded through the worst bits, pretty much all of them), although the thriller parts are handled well enough. Apparently, it was significantly cut on release and still bombed.

As an aside, when John Cassavetes died in the 1980's, 2000AD commemorated the event by issuing a Judge Dredd story (Issue No. 627) in the style of the director called "John Cassavetes is Dead", about an old man who's arrested for collecting newspapers.