Casino Movie 1995 Cast
Posted By admin On 29/03/22- Casino (1995) Awards. Academy Awards, USA (1996) Oscar Nominee Best Actress in a Leading Role Sharon Stone. Golden Globes, USA (1996) Golden Globe Winner. Best Cast Ensemble Robert De Niro.
- Casino (1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods. A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.
Casino (1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. GoldenEye premiered on 13 November 1995, at Radio City Music Hall, and went on general release in the United States on 17 November 1995. The UK premiere, attended by Prince Charles, followed on 21 November at the Odeon Leicester Square, with general release three days later.
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Casino is a 1995 crime film directed by Martin Scorsese that follows a mobster and his rise to success while running a mob-controlled casino in Las Vegas. The film was inspired by the events surrounding the mob-controlled Stardust casino in Las Vegas during the 1970's. Considered the spiritual sequel to Goodfellas, the film reunites Scorsese, writer Nicholas Pileggi, and actors Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, who play fictionalized versions of real-life figures Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Anthony 'Tony the Ant' Spilotro. The film's cast includes Don Rickles, Frank Vincent, James Woods, and Sharon Stone, who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role as Ginger McKenna.
The following weapons were used in the film Casino (1995):
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WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
Browning Hi-Power
A suppressed Browning Hi-Power is seen in Nicky Santoro's (Joe Pesci) hidden weapons compartment under his closet. Tony Dogs (Carl Ciarfalio) carries a Hi-Power akimbo with a Smith & Wesson Model 10HB while shooting up Remo's bar.
Smith & Wesson Model 10HB
Tony Dogs (Carl Ciarfalio) fires a Smith & Wesson Model 10HB from his left hand.
Colt Python
One of Tony Dogs' thugs carries a Colt Python revolver. The policemen who shoot Bernie Blue (Bret McCormick) also carry Pythons.
M1911-type
One of Tony Dogs' crew is armed with an M1911-type pistol when shooting up Remo's bar.
Walther PP
Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) uses a Walther PP to kill Anna Scott (Ffilliott Le Coque). One of the cops that shoot Bernie Blue plants a PP to justify them shooting him.
Smith & Wesson Model 15
Two mob hitmen (one of which is Frank Cullotta, the real-life inspiration behind Frank Marino) are armed with Smith & Wesson Model 15 revolvers during the final death montage.
High Standard Sharpshooter M
Assassins armed with suppressed High Standard Sharpshooter M .22 caliber pistols kill Andy Stone (Alan King).
Smith & Wesson 39
Nicky (Joe Pesci) keeps a suppressed Smith & Wesson 39 in his weapons safe. It is not a Model 59 as it lacks the double stack frame bulge, nor is it the Mk 22 Mod 0 'Hush Puppie', as it has the standard sights.
Uzi
One of Tony Dogs' thugs uses an Uzi when he shoots up a Kansas City bar. Frank Marino (Frank Vincent) and Dominick Santoro (Philip Suriano) later uses them they shoot up a cop's house.
Over and Under Shotgun
Billy Sherbert (Don Rickles) brings a Over and Under Shotgun to Sam 'Ace' Rothstein's house (Robert De Niro).
Mossberg 500
One of Nicky's thugs, Jack Hardy (Jed Mills), uses a Mossberg 500 when shooting up the cop's house.
Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s lawyer, Oscar Goodman (played by Goodman himself), stands by his side. Photo courtesy of Oscar Goodman.
Though the movie Casino was released more than 22 years ago, it still serves as a reference point for those hoping to understand what real Las Vegas mobsters were like when they were a sinister fixture in the news.
But most movies based on true stories, including Casino, twist the facts for dramatic effect and to compress long histories into a watchable timeframe.
What you see in Casino isn’t exactly the way things were. Case in point: the death of the Spilotro brothers, two mobsters originally from Chicago.
The way the movie portrays it, the brothers — or at least the fictional characters representing Anthony and Michael Spilotro — are beaten with baseball bats in a cornfield and shoved into a shallow grave while still alive.
Not true.
In his 2009 book Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob, journalist Jeff Coen details what really happened. Coen covered the Family Secrets trial for the Chicago Tribune. That 2007 trial resulted in convictions and revealed details that weren’t publicly known when the movie came out more than a decade earlier.
In the 1995 movie, it was baseball bats in a cornfield. But according to trial testimony, the Spilotros were lured to a residence near O’Hare International Airport in Bensenville, a subdivision of “modest homes,” and were beaten to death in the basement. (At the trial, one of the killers, Mob turncoat Nick Calabrese, said he could not recall which house it was.)
Anthony and his brother, Michael, a part-time actor and owner of the Chicago restaurant and Mob hangout Hoagie’s, went to the home in June 1986 believing they were to be promoted within the Outfit.
Although the brothers were suspicious, refusing to go was unthinkable.
When the Spilotros got to the basement, about 15 mobsters pounced on them. Michael had brought a pocket-sized .22-caliber handgun but could not get to it. Anthony was heard asking if he could say a prayer but was swarmed.
In addition to breaking Michael’s nose, the attackers inflicted blunt force injuries over his entire body. They severely bruised Anthony’s face, left temple and chest.
Anthony, 48, had blood in his trachea, lungs and nasal passages and hemorrhaging in the muscles of the larynx. The 41-year-old Michael had a fractured Adam’s apple.
Neither man’s skin was broken, indicating the killers did not use a heavy object such as a baseball bat. The brothers were beaten with fists, knees and feet, according to a pathologist at the trial.
The Spilotros were dead when buried in an Enos, Indiana, cornfield about 100 miles south of the murder house. The brothers were placed in a five-foot grave in only their underwear, one on top of the other.
The cornfield is near land that Outfit boss Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa used for hunting, according to Coen. A farmer discovered the grave, thinking someone had buried a deer. The Spilotros were identified by dental X-rays provided by a third bother, Patrick Spilotro, a dentist.
Why did this happen to Anthony and Michael Spilotro? Mob higher-ups felt the two had to be silenced.
Since the early 1970s, Anthony Spilotro had overseen street rackets in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit. He also was keeping an eye on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, a Chicago bookie handling the skim in Las Vegas for Midwestern Mob bosses.
Ultimately, though, news stories about Spilotro’s violent criminal activities, and his affair with Rosenthal’s wife, a former showgirl at the Tropicana hotel-casino, led to the gruesome outcome in that Bensenville basement.
Anthony Spilotro’s high-profile legal problems were jeopardizing the Outfit’s Las Vegas cash cow, prompting Aiuppa to order him “knocked down.” Michael Spilotro, facing a trial on extortion charges, had to go, too.
Casino The Movie
That terrifying outcome is not the only place where Casino misses the mark factually. In another example among many from the film, an animated Kansas City mobster pops off in an Italian grocery about the Las Vegas skim while federal authorities listen to his profanity-laced rant through a bug planted in a vent.
In reality, law enforcement authorities learned about the Las Vegas skim while eavesdropping on a conversation between members of the Civella crime family at a bugged back table in Kansas City’s Villa Capri pizzeria. Unlike the movie, there was no humorous scolding mom at the now-demolished Villa Capri nagging her mobster son about his vulgar language.
The only ones at the table were sinister Mob figures, behaving like real-life conspiratorial gangsters, not colorful movie characters.
Larry Henry is a veteran print and broadcast journalist. He served as press secretary for Nevada Governor Bob Miller, and was political editor at the Las Vegas Sun and managing editor at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Northwest Arkansas. Henry taught journalism at Haas Hall Academy in Bentonville, Arkansas, and now is the headmaster at the school’s campus in Rogers, Arkansas. The Mob in Pop Culture blog appears monthly.
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