I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started.

And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. I recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about that aspect of the film.The town will never be the same. There is rather infrequent strong language in this, and that is the only real objectionable material in it.

The anecdotes alone are very much worth watching this documentary for. It's edited well, and informative and entertaining throughout. This is well-paced, with a 20 minute running time. We hear about Pesci and DeNiro, how the first was in general during production and how the latter helped Sharon out. They go into the off-camera relationships between the actors, the many interesting casting choices, some of Scorsese's directorial methods, and more. The person who gets the most time(meanwhile, it never gets to be boring) is Stone, and we get the full back-ground story for her taking the role, and delivering her astounding performance. It consists of interviews, clips of the movie, behind-the-scenes footage and stills. This is one of six featurettes on the 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Casino, and one of the four of them that have their own page here on the site.

Casino 1995 full cast