Donna Gordon
Actor · Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Movies4
Movie7.0ThrillerCrimeCosmo 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.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976 · 306 votes
Movie5.0MusicComedyThe heir to a bankrupt studio decides to make a daring musical to avoid demolition, agreeing to finish it in two weeks or lose ownership.
The First Nudie Musical
1976 · 25 votes
- Movie5.1AnimationMusic
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
Tom Waits for No One
1979 · 7 votes
- MovieDrama
Navy Seal Demetri Papadapoulis is a proud strip club owner who gets in over his head on a $235,000 poker debt with the local River Gambling Cruise. A small group of Wiseguys send Demetri on a no way out suicide hit in exchange to wipe his debt clean by killing a ruthless Yakuza in Tampa called the Japanese Bookie.