Robert De Niro - Joe Pesce - Sharon Stone Director- Martin Scorsese and Phil Marco
One of my most favorite movies about the mob. A very informative look at how the mob secretly ran and swindled millions of dollars out of Vegas. Probably the most informative and factually correct movie out of all the mob flicks.
As a MOB enthusiast, I have watched all of the documentaries on the this time in Mafia history and read the book of the Casino story. There were facts changed, obviously to make the story Hollywood, but it still remains as an extremely close replica to what happened back in those days when the MOB was running things in Las Vegas.
A great movie for the history of Las Vegas and the history of the MOB.
Recommended for anyone who loves movies about Money, Greed, Sex Scandals, Murder, Organized Crime and Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro
Synopsis
Sam
"Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely
by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to
be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and
breathes the odds. He eventually doubles the mob's take and changes the
rules of how the casinos are run. But he can't control the odds when it
comes to Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and
becomes his wife. His infatuation with Ginger turns to obsession as she
rises with him to the upper crust of society, then turns to the bottle
and pills for consolation in her gilded cage. The third member of this
triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and
fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect
operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as
Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become
entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and
deception.
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