Ace meets and marries professional hustler Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a gorgeous but money-hungry gold digger with an unhealthy attachment to small time hustler Lester Diamond (James Woods). Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) was Ace's extremely violent sidekick on their way up in the shadow of the criminal world, and Ace is not thrilled when Nicky also relocates to Vegas. Ace operates a tight joint, weeding out the lower class criminals, disposing of cheats, and maximizing profits, becoming a well-respected man about town, in as far as Vegas respects any man.

In the early 1970s his mid-west Mafia associates, backed by the Teamsters, reward him by giving him his own Las Vegas casino, Tangiers, to run.

Martin Scorsese delivers another intense, if not perfect, journey into the intriguing and violent world of Crime Inc.Įxpert handicapper Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) always possessed a talent for making money from gambling. Inspired by true events and real-life characters, Casino celebrates Vegas before it was scrubbed clean and gentrified.

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