Casino (1995 film) Casino (1995 film) Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci. It is based on the nonfiction book "" by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The two had previously collaborated on "Goodfellas". The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and De Niro, following "Mean Streets" (1973); "Taxi Driver" (1976); "New York, New York" (1977); "Raging Bull" (1980); "The King of Comedy" (1982); "Goodfellas" (1990); and "Cape Fear" (1991). In "Casino", De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a
Arnold Rothstein as "a swell loser" who would never have shot Rothstein. According to Cook, Thompson later told some of his acquaintances that the killer had not been McManus but his "bag-man", Hyman Biller, who fled to Cuba shortly afterwards. In his "Kill the Dutchman!" (1971), a biography of Dutch Schultz, the crime reporter Paul Sann suggests that Schultz murdered Rothstein. He says this was in retaliation for the murder of Schultz's friend and associate Joey Noel by Rothstein's protégé Jack "Legs" Diamond. On his deathbed, Rothstein refused to identify his killer, answering police inquiries with "You stick to your trade. I'll