![]() ![]() To avoid legal complications it was fictionalised as the ‘Tangiers’ – though frequent bursts of Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust on the soundtrack provide a cheeky clue. The centre of the real story was the Stardust Hotel & Casino (which was still thriving in 1995 when the film was made). ![]() Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction account of the fall of the old-school mob control of Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and the takeover by faceless corporations, Martin Scorsese’s epic suffered a little by coming hard on the heels of the peerless Goodfellas with a similar style and some of the same cast members.
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