The True Story Behind Casino’s Nicky Santoro
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2023
- The movie Casino tells the true story of the real-life mobster Anthony Spilotro, a mobster who was once one of Las Vegas' most feared gangsters. He committed theft, burglary, and eventually... murder, with Frank Cullotta, a friend who would later join him in Vegas to become part of his gang called The Hole in the Wall Gang.
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Vegas went from the Italian mafia to the corporate mafia.
It's kinda funny how the old school mobsters would never shut up about how "you could never get away with it today with all the cameras on every corner"
They literally fled to, and created the most recorded city on the entire planet lol
We were better off with the Italian mafia tbh. Way better off.
And because of that, it now sucks!!!
Believe it or not but Vegas was also safer during the reign of the Outfit, Kansas City, and the other Midwest families of La Cosa Nostra. The Teamster Union controlled by Hoffa staffed all the places with classy and intelligent people making Vegas feel welcoming! Nowadays, you can get robbed on the strip, trash all over, and may even become a victim of a mass casualty even!
Plus, all the workers and casino staff act like your a nuisance to even bother them!
It's just not the same .....
True and the corporate Mafia is way more greedy!
Haven’t been there in ten years. No intention of going back either.
In the beginning you forgot rule #4, no messing around with the other guy’s wives. It’s bad for business.
I remember in the movies the Joe Pesci character seriously beat up the character played by Frank Vincent (Raging Bull, Goodfellas). Then in this movie "Casino" the Vincent character gets to beat up Pesci. RIP Frank Vincent.
Elegant tale of revenge, Scorsese did, for Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent.
My family is old time Las Vegas... The story behind Casino is shockingly true. What I would like add that Mr. Joe Pesci portrayal as Tony Spilotro should have earned him an Academy Award! Without doubt, he was the most chilling gangster in any film, anytime, thanks largely in part to Mr. Scorsese, the director.
Amazing performance in both Casino and Good Guys... Unervingly naturally scary.
I must be blind or naive. I spent time in Las Vegas with the USAF. This was in the mid-70's. I didn't see any of this. I saw a religious town filled with honorable and respectful people. They changed my life and made me a better person.
@@thomasryan2679 you cant have that in a casino town, its degeneracy incarnate, you were tricked, wool over your eyes
@@thomasryan2679 I worked at the Stardust in the late 70s and early 80s… The movie was accurate… I worked with a lot of these people and their relatives.
These are not people to be looked up to as heroes
VERY correct.
I was born there in '64, and raised there, as well. Most of the characters portrayed in the movie were in my house at one time or another. Those days are, regrettably, long gone. The "fellas" ran things wonderfully. They would have never allowed what you see today on the strip. Costumed panhandlers, public drunkenness, day clubs, dispensaries, room parties, fighting, etc.....those kinds of people would have been, shall we say, 'frowned upon HEAVILY'.
Vegas in the early 80's was the best, the Mob took care of you with great comps, cheap meals, free rooms etc. These days it's an over priced DISNEYLAND!
Yep, with the Mob it was all about the gambling. Good, clean, nice but cheap rooms. Cheap but high quality food and drink. Even the shows were moderately priced, Elvis cost around $30 in 1972 and that was the highest cost show in Vegas at the time. They treated you well, even if you were not gambling or spending they still showed you respect and hospitality. And of course the overall class factor when people wore suits and dresses to the casinos and the shows. The place simply made you feel special and welcome back then. These days it's all about squeezing that last nickel out of jr's. college fund. Shit, a $50 buffet is considered cheap these days in Vegas, and the only thing cheap about those buffets is the crap quality food they now serve.
You should have seen it in the 60s and 70s! My grandfather's company built almost all the electric signs on The Strip and on Fremont Street. People knew each other, and connections made the whole experience wonderful. Now, after all the old, classic properties have been replaced with all that garish crap, I don't visit Las Vegas anymore, as the magic it once had is gone forever.
@@alexp3752 Wow cool story, I just go to Indian Casinos now in Socal, many are just as good any major hotels in Vegas and treat you pretty good plus very close to me no more 4 hour drive to Vegas.
Vegas (and Reno) is all about catering to obese white hillbilly Karens now. The places are tacky to make them feel at home and spend what little income they have on white trash shit to maximize corporate profits. Vegas is just one giant Walmart. Meanwhile, the streets are filled with overdosing homeless drug addicts and HIV infected prostitutes. The mafia ran it with much more class back in the day. I have no interest going back to either one of those places.
Joe Pesci died twice playing two different characters casino and Goodfellas and both were hot-headed quick-tempered
Astute. I'm gonna skip Home Alone then, thanks for the tip.
He should of played Lil Nicky Scarfo
@@THEjoelivingstone Good one. I'll skip "My Cousin Vinny".
He lived in Brox Tale
@@jameschanin876 You're right!!! I forgot all about that. At the very end of the movie in the funeral parlor he comes in when C is all alone with Sonny because everybody else left. Like Sonny used to say "nobody cares".
Good spot.
Franky Collata didn't whack Tony because he was in custody at the time
The black book didn't have Al Capone in it because it didn't exist when he was alive. It had 14 names in it with Tony being number 15
And the cornfield was in Indiana but that's only where they were buried after being whacked in a basement nearby. The bodies were recovered the next week
Sounds like you've been watching videos of a certain history buff.
Wait.. if there were only 14 names, how was there a 15th name?
@@TDR85 14 before tony
@@saagisharon8595 ah thanks
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Note that Spilotro's lawyer was Oscar Goodman.. later to become mayor of Vegas - and in the movie, Goodman plays himself, escorting Pesci to court. Tons of cool trivia like this in the movie.
One of those rare breed of films that you cannot, ever, hope to watch enough 👍
(The outtakes are worth seeing - especially Rickles giving DeNiro shit for reading from cue cards 😂)
Joe did such a great impression of Tony, the old time dealers working the floor, thought it was actually Tony walking around, scared the crap out of them. 🤣
Accurate or not, Joe Pesci's portrayal of Tony was the best gangster character of all time. Even today, those images are chilling. Damn, Mr. Pesci should have got an Academy Award!
Worked the Casino business from 93-23. Missed the mob era by a generation. This much I can say, I loved what was left of it. In 93 their was still that feel of old Vegas in many areas of it particularly Downtown. I left last year because honestly the public has become a classless bunch and even in the highest end of hotels management is spineless and let’s anyone do whatever they want.
Just read ur msg wow brilliant comment and so so true, God bless you
Overtaken by classless tourists is mentioned in the movie
I used to go to the Stardust in the 1970s. One time from across the casino I saw Spilotro (realized who it was years later) at a poker table playing, probably, 30-60 Razz. He had, apparently, just lost a big pot. He was furious and standing up and screaming obscenities at the top of his lungs. Nobody, not management, not security, nobody said a word to him.
I miss limit poker! I wish we coule still find limit razz as mentioned
I would...
I wish I was living back in the 70s, on America, none of this bs of today..... was born in Ireland in '78
@@noelio67 It was very nice but we didn't realize that at the time.
@@pokerbot123 I liked 7 card stud Hi/Lo. That is a great game
As someone whose family is from Vegas. I can tell you it was definitely different before the Corporation got involved. For one in the 60’s Men and Women got dressed up to go gamble. 70’s and 80’s greats food at basically give away prices. Crime was almost unheard of around the Casinos.
The same corporation is involved the Italian mafia were merely the enforcers.
The top guys are jewish.
The entire US government is a corporate entity and the entire country is now a ponzi scheme...selling US bonds at a low interest, just to sell more bonds to pay for those low promised bonds with low interest rates, just to sell more and more...yea...
My family is old time LV too. Looking back, the 1960's were truly amazing! Hotel properties were set back from The Strip. Class and courtesy were the norm. It wasn't overly crowded, and people knew each other. The 70's were good too, until Mr. Hughes came to town and encouraged corporations to take over from the mob. Mr. Hughes did a great deal of good too, and I don't think there is a statue or a plaque honoring him.
That’s bc the Italian security enforcers actually do what the enforcers supposed to do, unlike the soft law system the lawmakers have in place. When you actually make trouble makers pay for consequences they will get the point.
Guys seriously, let’s not sit around on our couches and glorify a bunch of two bit notorious murdering thugs who would kill their own mothers for a quick buck - like seriously, wake up as it was a horrible time where drugs and unsolved murders and cold blooded thugs ruled back in the sixties - they had to go as enough of this nostalgic crap - seriously, what bunch of BS you tell you’re kids, how wonderful and safe Vegas was under the mob - wake up!!
I spent many days in Vegas, back in the '70s. We wore a suit and tie, had respect for others and had some great times, knowing it was run by the Mob didn't have any real effect on our lives. Those days changed in the '80s, and it became a "Family friendly" destination and went south in a hurry. Now, classless, drunk slobs running wild on Fremont street, the Strip filled with tourists wearing torn jeans and flip flops ! It's called "Progress". Not for me ! At least I have the memories. 😞
The Mob still controlled Vegas up until the mid-80's, then they started selling their holding to the corporations around 87' and in late 89' the first corporate built casino, The Mirage opened up. So I give Nov 22nd, 1989 as the day old-school Vegas died and the Disneyland version began. All that aside, my grandmother and uncle lived there from 82' to 91' and I would visit several times a year. I was in HS and Vegas was very strict back then, under 18 could only go through the casino to the hotel part, no stopping, but they always had a small arcade for the few kids there. And we were allowed in the restaurants as well but when walking through the casino the kids had to have a parent with them and a kid could not walk into a casino back then without a parent. Yes indeed, the good old days.
Your lucky, today's society has no self dignity and are all entitled, have not even had a job, living off handouts, I wonder what'll be like in 50 years
I was in Vegas last March for a convention. What a shit hole it's become. Ghetto thugs, white trash and tweakers everywhere. What a shame what it's become since the days of Sinatra.
And they're flying in specifically to smoke weed, then drink and cause trouble.....from an Irishman ☘🍺
Yes the progress of drag shows is family friendly. Smdfh
I’ve lived here in Vegas for 40 plus years and watched all this unfold in real-time . It still ticks me off that Rothstein’s lawyer became our Mayor and now his wife is our Mayor and Glamourized for what they did .
My grandfather was the electric sign king in Las Vegas, and now his firm is over 100 years old. Sadly, so much has changed in the city I refuse to visit anymore. With regret, the once stellar class, respect and courtesy is gone forever. In the old days, personal connections were the key to everything. Not anymore. Thanks for the memories!
unfortunately that's the nature of the game. Money talks, bullshit walks.
The Big Corporations know that if they make the entire city one giant tourist trap of gambling and alcohol, they'll make more money. The games are all in the houses favor, so the more people playing means the more people losing. Vegas merchandise they know they can mark up 30-40. And all of that stays in their pocket and not the mobs
Tony's lawyer.
It wasn’t Lefty’s lawyer it was spilotro’s
The movie actually made him look a lot better than he actually was.
Better in what way?
I grew up in the NW burbs of Chicago .I know all these areas .My late Father knew the brothers . Its weird to hear my fathers stories and realize how true all the wild things he used to talk about
Only been to the town back in 1976. It was winter. Storm came in from California, snowed so much several casino roofs collapsed. February I think.
In the 80's I was good friends with Nickys niece...I took her to prom. I met the family, they were nice , all very short in stature. She taught me a phrase oneday, "blood is thicker than water"...at the time I didn't understand really what she meant. Good memories.
Did you meet Nicky?
Uh....Nicky wasn't his real name.
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”.
Ie. real friends are better than family….
Nice trailer. I work the Stardust during the time of this movie as a dealer. The fat hordes of new family tourists as you call them was started by the Stardust management it's self when they built an interstrusture to accommodate RVs, Mobile homes and more for the low income mob (tourists).
Decades ago in Vegas and saw a bride running to her wedding wearing a white dress and NASCAR jacket. The ending of Casino was spot on.
It's actually amazing how much attention to detail was in this movie, on the Spilotro/Santoro character in particular. Several scenes in the movie were lifted straight from news footage of Spilotro from the era, in particular when he's walking out of the courthouse with his lawyer and the media surrounding him. Shot for shot it's almost identical. And to top it all off, his lawyer in the film is the ACTUAL lawyer who represented Spilotro in real life -- and then went on to be mayor of Las Vegas.
Another fun fact is state senator Harrison Roberts played by Dick Smothers, who was bribed by Ace and went up to the room with the showgirl, and then later grilled him at the gaming board hearing, was actually Harry Reid, who went on to be one of the most powerful Democrat senators in the country. That scene in at the hearing was also almost entirely lifted from news footage of the era as well.
Excellent again thanks for the information
My buddy roomed with Pat Spilatro (Jr?). at Indiana University in the mid 80s. His uncles got whacked and they pulled him out of school. He's a dentist in Chicago. His Dad was supposedly the only clean brother in the family and was also a dentist
I wish they left McCarran Airport the name it was in Las Vegas, with all due respect to Harry Reid
@@noelio67 Reid was a no-good piece of shIte. Just like most of the other senators and congressmen in the U.S..
Wow!
We met and old Blackjack dealer that worked Vegas during the mob days. He said "It was so much better. Every employee knew the customer's name, service was first class, and famous artists would play the floor stage until wee hours of the morning."
Outstanding video!!! And so many people thru interviews have said they miss the old Vegas not this Disney Vegas!
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My mom was walking with Anthony down the street on the way to school as they did every day. They came across a guy who Anthony thought was sweet on his girl. Without hesitation Anthony grabbed him and stuck his head in the door jam of the car he was getting in and started slamming the door on his head. His brother Pat was my dentist.
So well said .. great job..
I couldn’t help but admire your understanding and view of Vegas itself.
I was 25 when the Tangiers what brought down in 1995. As a kid I can remember my aunts and uncles talk about Vegas in a way that made it sound romantic. A place where you could head off for the weekend dress up, eat well and see a great show, relax and be pampered.
Personally I’ve never viewed Vegas in the same light. To me Vegas was and is the stop and sleep for the night before heading off to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon or many other scenic places in Utah.
I’m a firm believer of capitalism and am well aware that tourist dollars can definitely help a city but like in life nothing is free. My hometown, I feel, has become a shell of its former self because of similar reasons.
Maybe Vegas is a victim of its own success?
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@S W Hahahhaa that’s funny. I guess I forgot to elaborate a little more on what I meant by it coming down in the movie.
Thanks for the reply. It has given me a smile.
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I grew up in Vegas 1966 to 1982, and I don't remember the Tangiers hotel. I remember the Tangiers restaurant just south of the Sahara hotel but that's it.
Not sure what kind of inflation calculator they’re using to say $100k in the 20’s is worth over $1 billion in 2016.
They must have meant 100 million. This shows how videos like this are put together, outsourced script writer, editor, but no serious person overseeing the whole thing.
Yeah I dropped out shortly after that
I believe they meant million? I know it said billion but that’s not even close
My favourite film casino. Well made.
LOL. They were bringing in way over 100 K in the 20's. Once prohibition hit in 1920, I can even imagine the money the mafia was getting off illegal alcohol.
Thank you I enjoyed watching.very much
I heard and read that Joe Pesci is so good at playing mobsters because when Joe was youngster in New Jersey, he knew and heard about mobsters in his neighborhood.
Best mobster in a movie ever. No one else could ever match Mr. Pesci.
That is very true. That was also true in all the big mafia cities in the northeast...Boston, NYC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland...If you grew up in an Italian-American community, you knew who these guys were. Their children were often your friends or school mates. If you were smart enough, you also knew not to get involved in that shit.
Yup back in the day vegas had class when people would actually dress up to go down to the casino or a night on the town now they wear flip flops and a dirty Tshirt.
& people didn't have hissie fit's on airplanes & delay the flight for 3 hrs.
Spot on! I refuse to visit Vegas anymore due to the lack of class, respect and personalized service. The town is way overbuilt, and it will fail due to that fact and that Lake Mead is drying up. Like I have said to friends when leaving the city, eventually there will be desert wind blowing through empty, vacant buildings. The desert itself will reclaim a once great city.
You should do some Bronx Tale videos
I thought he got the green light because he was fooling around with the “Golden boy, Ace’s wife” It was mentioned in the movie the bosses didn’t like that!
Lol uhh no
Great video 🍿
Great commentary!
Everyone in that cornfield scene should've gotten a Oscar talk about intense and real but although Nicky was a bad guy yah couldn't but feel pity for him and his bro but remember karma and that bit about living by the sword.
Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent, perfect mobster portrayals. No one else can come close!
I met Tony's brother Pat, in 2007. He was older and a dentist. Had nothing to do with mob shit. Nice guy. My boss new him, and he came to his business in Franklin Park,Illinois while I was working one day.
He must ve had another brother who WAS involved. Oh, he had 5 brothers
Did the Spilotros live in Elmwood Park or Oak Park?
@@dc10fomin65 I really don't know. I know Joe (the clown) Lombardo did though.
The way Spilotro is portrayed by Pesci was actually wildly inaccurate. According to Frank Cullotta, who was Tony’s literal right-hand man since his teen years, Scorsese made Pesci’s character out to be “too Hollywood” - that’s his own words. That doesn’t change the fact that he played a great mobster, but the actual Tony was nothing like an unhinged maniac smacking people with phones, etc.
Wasn’t wildly inaccurate though… it’s other people that was around that said he was like that
Perfect analysis of this childhood gangster movie of mine.
I grew up with guys like these around but of another culture. My mom later told me of their brutality, only after I was in my 30's and then she answered a lot of questions of things that she didn't know I had seen. These "men in suits" would come visit with one family friend at our home, who was very respected and at times would have my mom hold envelopes for a while, all when my dad was at work. A hundred dollar bill isn't unusual NOW...but in the 60's it was, especially in stacks inside an envelope. All these people are passed now but I now know why my dad kept moving us farther away from the city I grew up in.
Did you grow up in Elmwood Park ?
@dc10fomin65....No but why do you ask?
@@cosmo2852 I hear Elmwood Park was where many mobsters lived, no particular reason.
@@dc10fomin65 There's other areas as well....but I'm guessing that you missed a certain point I made. I grew up in a different culture as the ones in the video.....and no where near New Jersey.
@@cosmo2852 I understand, no big deal, just talk, the Elmwood Park I mention is a Chicago suburb, have a nice life!
100k in 1920 isn't worth 1 billion in 2016. Who did your inflation math? It's more like 1.5 million.
Some Republican no doubt. What was it Dick Cheney said? Deficits don't matter.
Who else saw Jay Leno behind Nicky on the thumbnail?
Can’t unsee it now…
HawHawHaw!!!🤣🤣🤣🍻🍻
Wish we had time machines, would go back to the mid 70's, my brother in law used to tell me about how you could get a full 2 inch cut of prime rib for like 6 bucks with all the trimmings and sides, this is was in Reno, last time I was in Reno saw a prime rib dinner for 9.95 freaking thing was sliced so thin it was pathetic, ended up ordering the real meal which was about 1 1/2 inch cut, but it was 40 bucks. Never got the experience the good ole days of great cheap food.
I would hope that when you guys do these videos about the different mobsters learn how to say their last names correctly
Loved this film need to watch it again. Great story too👍
I remember going to Vegas in 78...one did not go to the casino in jeans and T shirt. Some of them would outright stop you at the door back then. Went back in 2012...it's people of Walmart with gambling now. While the end of the mob rule in Vegas is a good thing, the end of sophistication is not. But, that's just how the USA is now. Millions of oxygen thieves willing the bet the rent on a chance of something for nothing.
Thank you
Joe Pechi did a great job playing him and Casino is a great movie
Casino is terrible & those actors weren’t even real chicagoans
The best film I can think of to accompany Casino, in terms of offering a contrasting view, would be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The story takes place during the mob's heightened grip on the desert city and Hunter's view on everything is something quite interesting.
I saw Fear and Loathing in the theater. Long ass film, but interesting. Don't know if I could watch the whole thing again though. 😏
Funniest moment when Blue comes out off his car and is held at gunpoint by police. Thinking that Blue had a gun, opened fire but realized later it's was only a hero sandwich wrapped in foil. The cop's reaction was priceless
$100,000 in 1920 isn’t $1,000,000,000 now…wtf?
Mob accounting.
Wasn't Ace an informer in real life ?
Yep. (It is said)
I'm not the reader I used to be, but I swear the book related to this movie included a crazy murder that should've been in the movie. Somebody from Chicago knew too much, etc so they decided to whack him. They called and verified he was home alone, but it was a residential area so they took some of the gunpowder out of the bullets. They end up shooting the guy, but it doesn't kill him and the 2 hitmen are grabbing knives, lamps, and whatever in the garage. The guy evidently put up a tremendous fight, but finally gave up and said something like "Get it over with before my family gets home"
True, I believe it was Cullotta going after Sherwin Lisner?
The RICO laws did more to silence the Mafia more than anything else, surprised you made no mention of it.
I was there from the 70's through the early 90's ... and I agree 100000% with you! It was one helluva high classed place. I can rant for hours on the differences, but I won't. Lets' just say it was way better to live there then, than it is now! Also, one of the major reasons I left. 'Nuff said.
With respect, truer words have never been spoken! My family is old time LV, and I make it a point to never visit anymore. I cherish the memories from the 60's and 70's.
@@alexp3752 So do I. It was great living there ... then! Even though I still live in northern NV, I don't go there, except to catch a direct flight to England, or meet guests coming in from there, as there are no direct flights "across the pond" from anywhere else in the state!
This video had a lot of humor in it. I like it .
Casino is my favorite for the Vegas setting.
Wonder why they downplay their violence, to make the movie's more watchable possibly. They did the same with Jimmy and Tommy in Goodfellas. W hen you read the book, they are both ultra violent, way worse than the movie and particularly Jimmy.
I remember franzese saying Santoro was a psychopath. It seems some of them were Stone cold killers.
the movies try to portray mobsters as classy, when in reality they are the psychotic opposite of anything resembling class
@@peabody3000 too true. The only movie that got it right that I can think of is Donnie Brasco. Lefty was a degenerate gambler with a junkie for a son and the rest of them were similar. Brilliant movie that.
@@tazzatamaniaI agree.The 1996 HBO Gotti movie was pretty authentic too.
To get past the censors and make the movie more watchable for a bigger audience. Unless you grew up in an Italian-American community, you would have no idea how violent these guys were if someone stood in front of "their" money. They actually didn't bother you other than that. They were not street criminals, but were a big picture organization. Their main sources of income were numbers racket, sports betting, loans, corporate profit skimming, skimming union dues, money laundering etc. If you were an average person with an average income, they didn't even care you existed.
My parents in the 70s went to see Elvis . Ofc I was just a kid here in uk .
My mum said when she arrived at the hotel stardust she was given bunch of flowers abd treated like a queen. The mafia knew whom you was and looked after you especially tourists
My mum and my dad went back in 2001 and said they'll never go bck ever again. Las Vegas isn't the Same . My parents loved Vegas in the late 70s when they 1st went xx
The big Co operations don't give a shit bout no one.
Tony's younger Brother was on an Episode of Magnum PI before they were killed.
Larry Manetti, who played Rick, grew up with the Spilotros. Even Tom Selleck, contrary to his law and order image, could be seen occasionally in the Spilotro restaurant when he visited Chicago.
@@MJ-we9vu who was in the show Micheal? That's funny those guys hung w the spilotros. Lol why not. Coke. Money. Casinos. Hookers. What more is there ?
1:05 al capone wasn't in the mafia, he hated sicillians for a start.
I wonder if the Sicilians have a flavour of ice cream like the Neapolitans.
@@drmodestoesq more then likely
It was much better then, than what it has turned into now.
I love it he said there skiming the money we are skimming lol
I watched Casino again recently. That baseball bat scene at the end is still a tough watch.
Seems like a breakdown of casino, not the guy
Good job
It's a fact that Italians love theater and hyperbole. I remember during basic training this one NYC goombah was threatening everybody. Now he was a big muscular guy. But this one farmboy from Indiana secretly a black belt in karate whipped the fuck out of the goombah. Our MTI squad figured goombah had it coming and simply sent him to sickcall. Farmboy was left alone. This taught me, a fresh out of highschool Navajo, that the big powerful mafia were only as powerful as the cowardly cityfolk will allow them. I later learned the farmboy became warrant officer who became a helicopter pilot on the brand-new AH64 attack helicopter. Goombah got humbled, grew up and earned honor. He became a cop for NYC. As for myself, I ended up working for the precious state of Arizona and retired from the state's highway department.
Thanks for sharing. There's a lesson in that story for all of us. Find your true self....or your best self.
Did I hear this right? $100K in the 1920’s was not equivalent to $1B today?
I know. I thought I was bad at math.
The ads at the end of this video cement the Disney land
Did you read the book by Pileggi? I can’t find any pictures of the real-life James Woods character. Also, was Lefty an informant?
Do your due diligence lefty was an informant and so was ginger.
Maybe was an informant. This is an old trick the feds do. They put out on the street this guy was an informant. In hopes the mob would do something to him.
@@jayluv34 Every ship has a rat.
It hasn't been confirmed but yes I believe Lefty Rosenthal was informing on the Outfit.
@@jayluv34 - Her name wasn't Ginger....it was Gerry. So maybe you need to do your due diligence.
I grew up in the Kansas city area portrayed in this movie back when this stuff was going on, the River Quay, car bombs during the day and buildings and bars would explode at night and neighbors were found in the trunks of their own cars at the airport, I gotta say though the food was off the chain!
None of the scenes portraying Kansas city was even Kansas city 😂.
@Signore Santino Burnett No it wasn't filmed there, and Carl De'Luna or Tuffy if you knew him didn't drop dead from a heart attack either when the FBI showed up at his front door, he went to prison for a stretch but passed away a free man in 2008 from natural causes.
@ 8:52
I've seen Interviews with the real gangsters. Tony and his bro where beaten and shot somewhere in Illinois or New York I believe. It was just a basement and they were dumped somewhere else.
That scene in the film is INTENSE though!!
Illinois, they wouldn't be anywhere near New York.
Indiana I believe
Cornfield in Indiana
They weren't shot , they were stomped to death, in a suburb of Chicago, dumped in a cornfield in rural Indians
Tony's son believes he was pre-emptive collateral damage: that his loose-cannon uncle was the real target, and his father was whacked at the same time because he couldn't avenge his brother from beyond the grave.
Damn as if so happens I’m wearing my Casino crew polo from the movie. We did the film transfers and when I saw the head in a vice I was like what the faaaa??!
Mob lawyer Oscar Goodman playing himself in the movie was the coolest thing ever....He later became Las Vegas Mayor. Followed by Oscar's wife subsequently becoming mayor.
It was amazing back then!
I found out later, as a grown up, that as a kid I had lived on the same street as the Spilotro family home on Chgo's NW side. Riis Park divided my block and theirs. I also attended the same highschool as one of the Spilotro brothers. But not during the same decade.
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Pesci grew up around these people. That was his connection. He was not actually connected with the mafia as in working for them. I am in the same boat. I know how these people talk and think. My next door neighbor was high up in the mafia numbers racket and I was good friends with his kids. Basically was polite to him, but never got involved in that shit. Eyes and ears open, but keep your mouth shut. The worse thing you can be in an Italian-American community is to be a big mouth rat.
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Lefty rosenthal was a fbi informant code named Achilles and his car was blown up in 1982 which was 4 years before the murder on spilotro. Lefty rosenthal after his car bombing attempt in 1982 never set foot in chicago or vegas for the rest of his life. Is the narrator actually serious about this video or are we all on candid camera?
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That $100,000 number is wrong buddy
I think he meant 100,000,000
@@khabbad I think he meant a kajillion.
And don’t participate in adultery
Lived in Vegas in `82......that life is only glamorous from the outside
Were you in the "life?"
worked for guys that ran the Dunes ; that's all I have to say
This was a great movie.
I've been told that Vegas was a much better place to visit when the mob was in control, they took care of people better.. also the American mob is very much still alive.
It was, I grew up in old school Vegas. The Mob knew that if you took care of the tourists and the employees then money flowed and everyone was happy. Then the corporate mafia took over and the town went downhill fast. Used to be that it didn't matter if you were Joe Smoe or some big celebrity everyone was treated with enthusiasm and respect. Now it's just for the rich snobs and the idiots with too much bloody money.
Well said. I love when these squares do these videos and talk about the Mafia in the past tense. Anyone that follows actual Mafia news will tell you they're arguably stronger than ever before. They just aren't stupid and don't do things to attract attention. It's easy to quietly make money nowadays./
Lol. Look at you. You got your head in a vice. Classic.
The Outfit had Rosenthal running more than one casino. The biggest skim came from the StarDust. And I like your content but you butcher the guys names in episodes and get details so wrong, making me feel you didn't do enough homework on these guys. Frank Cullotta had a youtube show before he died called Coffee with Cullotta and he had zero to do with the M&M murders except ask them to meet him then let Spilotro borrow his car.
So he says. There are other times he’s slipped up and said he was there. But I don’t think he was.
@@pab1381 - Frank was on a date when M&M shot up the bar. Frank actually had gone with them a couple weeks before. He was gonna help shoot the place up but there were waitresses there and he wasn't going to do that. Frank was originally a burglar and never aspired to be in the mafia. He was friends with M&M. That's why Tony used Frank to get to them.
If Tony and Frank hadn't been childhood friends, Frank would have been killed along with M&M. Reason being that Acardo (Boss) thought that Frank had gone with them that night to kill everyone since those 3 were so tight in the burglar game.
The book is actually named 'CASINO LOVE AND HONOR IN LAS VEGAS. The casino was named 'The Stardust'. The name Tangiers is fictional but based on the Stardust casino.
Oh the 80s...what a wonderful time!
100,000 thousand a year is not 1 billion in today's money-- 100 million a year is 1 billion in today's money.
Would love to go to Vegas before the mob got sadly busted . Heard tourists where protected and you got 5 star treatment in hotels esp when checking Inn. Now Vegas is a worst . Toon me 1 hour just to check inn . Wouldn't of happened in days of mafia. X
Nicky didn't take a backseat to Ace in fact it's depicted in the movie several times that Nicky was sent by Gaggi to keep an eye on Ace which makes him highly ranked in the organization
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The funny thing is Joe Pesci's portrayal of Spilatro is spot on as both he and Spilatro were the same height and build. But Pesci's role as Tommy DeSimone wasn't accurate in the sense the Tommy was over 6 foot and large build. Nevertheless both performances were great.
Casino was awful. Neither guy was even a real Chicagoan
Wish I could have experienced that
He tried to drown a kid at the public pool when he was 12. Bad seed doesn't even begin to describe it.
This is the most accurate video I've ever seen on the facts behind Casino the Movie
Sad
History Buffs is more accurate than this
You are kidding?
Hahahaha!
The guy can't even say his name right
Great story. Great movie.
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