Martin Scorsese's fascinating new film 'Casino' knows a lot about the Mafia's relationship with Las Vegas. It's based on a book by Nicholas Pileggi, who had full access to a man who once ran four casinos for the mob, and whose true story inspires the movie's plot.

• Casino Movie Youtube Review History Buffs 2018
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• Casino Movie Youtube Review History Buffs

The YouTube-channel ‘History Buffs’ reviews historical movies with a special emphasis on their historic accuracy. This can be fun and the channel has around 140.000 subscribers. Recently it picked “Agora” for a review and I was immediately thrilled.

Like 'The Godfather,' it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place.

• Gimme Shelter (1970) while the song 'Gimme Shelter' plays, the cops kill a man holding a sandwich, then it is rewound and there is a frreze frame in which we zoom in on the sandwich, exaclty like the Maysles do in the movie, 'Gimme Shelter' to show Mick Jagger the man in the green suit holding the gun, and the Hell's Angel with the knife.
• Casino (1995) - Movie - YouTube The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment.
• For those of you want realism in their historical movies. To watch a film that cares as much about about authenticity as you do. Look no further.

The movie opens with a car bombing, and the figure of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein floating through the air. The movie explains how such a thing came to happen to him. The first hour plays like a documentary; there's a narration, by Rothstein (Robert De Niro) and others, explaining how the mob skimmed millions out of the casinos.

Casino Movie Youtube Review History Buffs 2018

It's an interesting process. Assuming you could steal 25 percent of the slot-machine take - what would you do with tons of coins? How would you convert them into bills that could be stuffed into the weekly suitcase for delivery to the mob in Kansas City? 'Casino' knows. It also knows how to skim from the other games, and from food service and the gift shops. And it knows about how casinos don't like to be stolen from.

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There's an incident where a man is cheating at blackjack, and a couple of security guys sidle up to him and jab him with a stun gun.

He collapses, the security guys call for medical attention, and hurry him away to a little room where they pound on his fingers with a mallet and he agrees that he made a very bad mistake.

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Rothstein, based on the real-life figure of Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal, starts life as a sports oddsmaker in Chicago, attracts the attention of the mob because of his genius with numbers and is assigned to run casinos because he looks like an efficient businessman who will encourage the Vegas goose to continue laying its golden eggs. He is a man who detests unnecessary trouble. One day, however, trouble finds him, in the person of Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a high-priced call girl.