He meets and marries beautiful hustler Ginger, who is still close with her lowlife pimp. In Vegas, Ace quickly rises to prominence. Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein, a Chicago-based expert gambler with Mob ties, is given the opportunity to run Las Vegas casino The Tangiers.
Screenwriters: Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorseseīased on: The non-fiction book, Casino: Love and Honour in Las Vegas, by Nicholas Pileggi. In this analysis, we take a closer look at how Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi’s Las Vegas-set crime epic was adapted from its true-crime source…
