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EXT. RESTAURANTPARKING LOT, LAS VEGAS, 1983 - DAY

A riveting if not uplifting look at the gaming industry's inside games during the mob's heyday in Las Vegas. With the cooperation of Frank (a.k.a. Lefty) Rosenthal, one of Chicago's top men in the Nevada pleasure domes, Pileggi (Wiseguy, 1986, etc.) offers a blow-by-blow account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled as silent but deadly partners during the 1970s. Casino - Love and Honour in Las Vegas is the true crime classic by Nicholas Pileggi, which was turned into a hit movie by Martin Scorsese starring Robert DeNiro and Sharon Stone. Pileggi co-wrote the film and it won Sharon the Golden Globe. Casino.org is the world’s leading independent online gaming authority, providing trusted online casino news, guides, reviews and Nicholas Pileggi Casino Pdf information since 1995. 2425 claimed this offer in the last month.

SAM 'ACE' ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculatelydressed man

approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn

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on the ignition.

ACE (V.O.)

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When you love someone, you've gotta

trust them. There's no other way.

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You've got to give them the key to

everything that's yours. Otherwise,

what's the point? And, for a while...

I believed that's the kind of love I

had.

Suddenly, the car explodes. Flames, smoke and metal rise

into the sky covering the view of the Las Vegascasinos and

their signs.

Music in:
J.S. Bach - 'St Matthew Passion'.

Ace's body comesflying in - extreme slow motion. His body

twists and turnsthrough the frame like a soul about to tumble

into the flames of damnation.

MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.

INT. TANGIERSCASINOFLOOR - NIGHT

Vignette of ACEthroughrippling flames, we move in on ACE

ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.

ACE (V.O.)

Before I ever ran a casino or got

myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a

hell of a handicapper, I can tell

you that. I was so good, that whenever

I bet, I couldchange the odds for

every bookmaker in the country. I'm

serious. I had it down so cold that

I was givenparadise on earth. I was

given one of the biggestcasinos in

Las Vegas to run, the Tangiers...

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INT. SANMARINOITALIAN GROCERY/BACK ROOM, KANSASCITY -

NIGHT:

Vignette of MOBBOSSESsitting at a tablesurrounded by food

and wine like the gods of Olympus.

ACE (V.O.)

...by the only kind of guys that can

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actually get you that kind of money:

sixty-two million, seven-hundred

thousand dollars. I don't know all

the details.

NICKY (V.O.)

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Matter of fact...

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INT. BAR, LASVEGAS - NIGHT

Vignette of NICKYSANTOROstanding at a bar with DOMINICK

SANTORO, his brother, and FRANK MARINO, his right-hand man.

NICKY (V.O.)

...nobody knew all the details, but

it should'a been perfect. I mean, he

had me, Nicky Santoro, his best

friend, watching his ass...

INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT

Vignette of GINGERMCKENNA a dazzling thirty-one-year-old

blonde seated by a smallfiery pool.

NICKY (V.O.)

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...and he had Ginger, the woman he

loved, on his arm. But in the end...

INT. TANGIERS SPORTSBOOK/ACE'S OFFICE - NIGHT

ACE looks over the casino he rules.

NICKY (V.O.)

...we fucked it all up. It should'a

been so sweet, too. But it turned

out to be the last time that street

guys like us were ever given anything

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that fuckin' valuable again.

EXT. LASVEGAS - NIGHT

Aerial shot coming down out of the clouds over the brightly

lit VegasStrip and off into the blackness of the desert

night.

ACE (V.O.)

At that time, Vegas was a place where

millions of suckers flew in every

year on their own nickel, and left

behind about a billion dollars. But

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at night, you couldn't see the desert

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EXT. DESERT - DAWN

Aerial shot swoopingalong the desert floor, then rising

above the mist to revealmountains in the distance.

ACE (V.O.)

But it's in the desertwhere lots of

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the town's problems are solved.