Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Acting
Falk and Cassavetes improvised for hours; May kept the wreckage.
Direction
May's first cut was 180 minutes—studio panicked, brilliance survived.
Cinematography
Philadelphia at 3 AM never looked more like a ghost town.
Director
Elaine May
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
May shot three times the footage of 'The Godfather' and hid negatives from Paramount, who tried to fire her multiple times.
Cassavetes and Falk were real friends; their offscreen affection makes the onscreen betrayal almost unbearable to watch.
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