{"id":40113,"date":"2025-09-27T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40113"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:05:40","slug":"casino-1995-directed-by-martin-scorsese-starring-robert-deniro-sharon-stone-and-joe-pesci-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40113","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Casino&#8221; (1995) directed by Martin Scorsese; starring Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z092725zview_casino.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Casino <\/strong><\/em>(1995)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pKhsbO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CASINO: LOVE AND HONOR IN LAS VEGAS<\/a> by <strong>Nicholas Pileggi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, L.Q. Jones, Dick Smothers, Frank Vincent, John Bloom, Pasquale Cajano, Melissa Prophet, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jerry Vale<\/strong> and <strong>Frankie Avalon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Luck has nothing to do with the games they play.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1973 and Las Vegas is booming.\u00a0 Especially for the Chicago Mob thanks to Sam &#8220;Ace&#8221; Rothstein.\u00a0 Rothstein has doubled profits for his Chi-town buddies.\u00a0 Skimmed cash is sent back weekly.\u00a0 All is great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Rothstein&#8217;s childhood pal shows up.\u00a0 Nicky Santoro is a hothead and mob enforcer known by the cops for his past crimes.\u00a0 Nicky&#8217;s come to Vegas to make his fortune.\u00a0 Rothstein tells Nicky all will be good if he keeps a low profile.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Nicky&#8217;s gotta be Nicky.<\/p>\n<p>Add Ginger McKenna to the mix and things get, uh&#8230; explosive.\u00a0 Ginger is an ex-showgirl, ex-prostitute and con artist.\u00a0 Rothstein loves her dearly.\u00a0 She loves what Rothstein can give her.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s roll the dice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharon Stone was nominated for a <em>Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Award<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Scorsese allowed Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci to improvise much of the dialogue in their scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scorsese,\u00a0 DeNiro and Pesci are gold.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Casino <\/strong><\/em>(1995) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z092725zview_casino2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino (1995) Director:\u00a0 Martin Scorsese Screenplay:\u00a0 Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese; based on CASINO: LOVE AND HONOR IN LAS VEGAS by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40115,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113\/revisions\/40115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}