Casino 10th Anniversary Addition

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Casino is one of the greatest crime dramas ever made. Period. I absolutely love it. Now we all score since coming this month the 10th Anniversary addition is coming with loads of goodies added onto it. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorseseâ€™s riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mobâ€™s multi-million dollar casino operation where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice.

Some of the Bonus Features:

Casino: The Story
Casino: The Cast and Characters
Casino: The Look
Casino: After the Filming
Deleted Scenes
Vegas and the Mob
History Alive: True Crime Authors: Casino with Nicholas Pileggi
Moments with Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi
Production Notes and More

The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to Ace; and Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone, in a role she was born to play), a leggy ex-prostitute with a fondness for jewelry and a penchant for playing the field.

Ace plays by the rules (albeit Vegas rules, which, as he reminds the audience in voiceover, would make him a criminal in any other state), while Nicky and Ginger lie, cheat, and steal their respective ways to the top. The film's first hour and a half details their rise to power, while the second half follows their downfall as the FBI, corrupt government officials, and angry mob bosses pick apart their Camelot piece by piece.