Casino
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed
. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
Title: Casino
Release Date: 1995
Genres: Crime, Drama
- Directors: Scorsese, Martin
- Actors:
- De Niro, Robert as Sam ”Ace” Rothstein
- Stone, Sharon as Ginger McKenna/Rothstein
- Pesci, Joe as Nicky Santoro
- Woods, James as Lester Diamond
- Vincent, Frank as Frank Marino
- Cajano, Pasquale as Remo Gaggi
- Pollak, Kevin as Phillip Green
- Rickles, Don as Billy Sherbert
- Vella, Vinny as Artie Piscano
- King, Alan as Andy Stone
- Jones, L. Q. as Pat Webb
- Smothers, Dick as Senator
- Rigano, Joseph as Vincent Borelli
- Bloom, John as Don Ward
- Prophet, Melissa as Jennifer Santoro