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In Reply to: RE: Just watched the "Killing of a Chinese bookie" Directors cut posted by Gandra1 on December 06, 2010 at 08:32:28
Back then in Detroit there were strip joints and people like that. Well then again it was filmed about then!
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... grouped in an area called "the block" - strangely across the street from the Baltimore City Police headquarters.It was still "greasy" through the 90's, but today the city in trying to clean up its image, (right!), and has moved to become more "family" oriented.
I love when films accurately capture some memory of the American experience, as was achieved in "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie".
I feel that the version with added cabaret scenes so full of desperate pathos, elevates a great film, to art.
Edits: 12/08/10
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