Skim City: The Real-Life Mafia Behind Casino(2023)
Overview
The real-life story that inspired Martin Scorsese's 1995 masterpiece "Casino," chronicling the rise and fall of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal's 1970's Las Vegas mob-affiliated casino empire.
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