Release Date:
06/14/2005
Before Las Vegas became a playground for fanny-packing buffet hounds, it was a lawless outpost where degenerate mobsters put the squeeze on the locals
with a vise! Scorseses new classic turns the clock back to 1973, when bookies like Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) ran casinos and sociopathic goons like Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) bloodied the locals. What happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas back then, too, only it was buried in a deep hole in the desert. Luckily, all of the secrets are revealed here, from featurettes covering Las Vegas historical ties to the underworld to the minutiae that Scorsese obsessed over on the set. (These ice cubes arent square enough!) The only thing missing is a blindfold for when Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone get it on.