Casino: The REAL NICKY SANTORO/Tony Spilotro
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In Casino, Joe Pesci played Nicky Santoro, a short tempered mobster from Chicago who was sent by his bosses to oversee their operations in Vegas. This character was based off of Tony Spilotro, and in this video we will examine his shocking rise and fall.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. It cuts both ways.
I loved this doc....no music...no fanfare....just the narrator explaining everything.
And unrelated B-roll
There's music through the whole thing.
U must be insane, there is clearly music in the background. Get ur facts straight before u comment
Pretty sure this is an AI voice... hard to tell anymore
Perfecto👌🏽
No one could've played him better than pesci
Facts when the video talks about his shoe shining days all I could think of was...now get ur fucking shine box 😂😂
That height too.
He closely resembled the real Nicky as opposed to Goodfellas where he looked nothing like Tommy DeSimone. It didn’t matter though as he was equally good in both.
@@anthonysims63 the shoe shine story is actually a little glossed over.The ant actually later graduated to running his shoe shine franchine in legal term persay .he was collecting royalities from shoe shiners in the some parts of chicago where it was lucrative .He was a business man even as a teen.
Maybe Dustin Hoffman
The commentary is spot on, very easy to listen too. The story moves along super fluid and keeps your interest. Well done. Subscribing.
Agreed
@@neneizzy9277 Although this is how fibs get told. I knew Frank Cullotta,and filmed around 40 hours or audio/video from 2018-2020. I've released some of it on youtube. Trying to sell the footage to one person/company. It has Frank telling the real stories of killings/robberies. The Jerry Lisner incident with a few differences , a double murder at the Upper Crust in Vegas , bodies in Lake Mead. that still hasn't been discovered.
Except the "my father knew your father" part wasn't about Frank Culotta. That was with Frank Rosenthal after Tony started bullying him when they were kids.
After watching this it really now does resonate how accurate Martin Scorcesses depiction of him was in the 1995 Casino movie !
What an absolutely thorough documentary. Tony and his outfit were killing so many people in Vegas that when recently Lake Mead dried up and they found all those bodies there in barrels, they immediately suspected it to be the work of Tony and his crew.
Interesting fact: Frank Cullotta was the consultant in the movie Casino.
Cullotta 'The Rat.' Mutt.
He is in the film.
Tony "the ant" Spilotoro evolved into Tony "the BAT" Spilotoro.
Frank Marino
Frank Cullotta takes a lot of liberties.
I had no idea this guy was doing what he was doing while I was working in Vegas from 72-77. I knew the city was run by crooks, but this was over the top to me.
The guy narrating this story does a really good job.
I stayed at the Stardust hotel with my parents in the early 70's when the Mob ran it. Never know it we had no idea back then.
Tony was the definition of keep that same energy 😂
Kudos to the narrator, your Italian pronunciations were about 98% accurate. I’ve been a mob enthusiast for 40 years and speak fluent Italian, thus far yours is the best. Normally my ears bleed!! 😂
I am black, ate a sammich before so I know Italian and this guy doesn't speak our language well.
@@googlemyself4091 Hey Tony, this moulinyan botherin' you? I'll take 'em outside and have a talk if you like. I swear, even the spooks think they can just talk to us like they're one of us... madon.
@@AnoNymous-gn6tl Touching story. Let report your racism and block you. Bye bye.
@@googlemyself4091
We'll send you to
Slip and Fall School then, Mooley.
@@googlemyself4091nobody axed you moolie sicily aint italian
My buddy's father was a Vegas cop, one day he took him to that Jewelry store, Gold exchange, or whatever it was that Tony had just so he could see who "ran Vegas". My buddy said you couldn't believe how small he was, my buddy said even though he was only 12 years old he was bigger than Tony lol.
I still remember hearing about the Spilotro brothers being killed back in ‘86 and watching on channel 7 news show the corn field where their bodies were buried, Carol Marin was a long time Chicago news anchor back then…👍
Tony Big Tuna..😑😂. These nick names are classic. With a twist of comedy.
Interesting fact Big Tuna is the Bosa Brothers great grandfather (the nfl players). He was also a top boss and one of the the most influential bosses in the nation. He died in his 80s and never spent one night in jail
Willy Potatoes. 😂🤣
I grew up around outfit guys, and they were all bums. Even the "bosses" were ignorant morons. They also didn't have shit. 3 made guys robbed a breakfast restaurant on my street & got away with $345. 4 days later, they were locked up and ended up getting 10 years each. Smart, huh?
Tony Accardo lived in a multi million dollar mansion on Franklin ave in River Forest. He had the whole block
My first employer was a motel owned by mobsters. I worked maintenance and worked for that family on three occasions. They were dimwitted and had the mentallity and intelligence of nine-year-old children that behaved like arrogant bullies. They way they acted and the way they thought they were like simpletons. When the big hits by the FBI against mobsters started occuring ruding the mid 1980's, then suddenly members of this family I worked for started having accidental deaths and bizarre instances of suicides while wealthy. They owned that town until they didn't. I don't know what crimes they were involved in other than possibly hiding bodies and doing a lot of trafficking and money laundering. I'm certain their business wasn't really anything more than involvement in local unions and embezzlements and money laundering and doing errands for the larger part of the syndicate. It was odd seeing helicopters occasionally landing in the little motel's parking lot. Oddly enough the motel was named the "Outlaw Inn." When my mother worked a banquet they held there, they showed up with violin cases and pin striped suits. They then pulled tommy guns out of the violin cases and opened fire on the crowd in the banquet area known as the "Robber's Roost." They had blanks in those guns. They had a wicked sense of humor and more hubris than you can imagine. What I disliked the most about them was how they treated their help. They treated anybody who worked for them like dirt and they were bigoted and crude and spoke in riddles. I was just a kid but I didn't sort out the way they spoke until a few years later. Yes, they were Sicillians. All of them.
I grew up in Chicago and had an uncle connected some how though we werent sicilian , he was a korean war vet and had N side Irish contacts very brilliant man that raced cars and had many patents on his inventions. It doesnt take rocket science to commit crime , but to control Judges, bankers, politicians and underworld activty takes great understanding of human beings and what methods to implament , which could be seen as inteligence.Not everyone is alike and though there are dumb criminals there are always some very sneaky devils running the show behind the scene.
Yeah you got it right, morons, low IQ
Joe Pistone exposed plenty of myths in his book Donny Brasco. NOTHING was off the table when it came to $$$. That included breaking in to VENDING MACHINES ! Never looked at mob guys the same since. Hollywood creates MYTHS. "but they are killers" yawn So are thousands of other people.
Man, Pesci was perfect for Spilotro's portrayal...
"Now go get your F*cking shinebox!!!"...
That's funny, Joe Pesci character in "Good Fellas" had the same childhood job his character in "Casino". Coincidence?
go home and get your fuckin shine box
Loved your video, the only change I'd make is the broll of the "suburb in Las Vegas". There was too much green trees and bushes to be Vegas. I grew up here in the 70's.
Missed a few details when they went to the supposed ceremony both tony and Mike got their guns taken away from them they knew they were getting whacked and b4 the beating took place Tony asked them can he say a prayer first and I think mad sam got killed because thier bodies weren't supposed to be found
These stories are really well done, super detailed really great listen
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Excellent content.
Thomas DeSimone + Anthony John Spilotro + Nicodemo Scarfo etc etc....never get enough of them documentaries
Great job on this story. You certainly did your homework. I was born & raised here, and I have to say that Las Vegas was such a better town back when the Chicago Outfit ran things here. Had Tony did what he was sent here to do, just watch the skim and send the cash back home, the mob could’ve ran Vegas for another 10-15 more years. The Chicago bosses got tired of the BS with Tony always being in the forefront of publicity all the time. I remember seeing him in the Review Journal (Vegas’ newspaper) nearly every week-and I remember reading about that parasite, fat rat Cullotta turning informant! He really brought down the house of cards when he turned.
Would you rat out people if you heard a tape of someone that was going to kill you?
Truth be told mob could have kept Vegas but by the time of all this crashes you got Hughes investing money in Vegas and all the sudden corporate money takes over
Because he'd rather shoot his mouth off, and pretend to be an 'insider'...🎉
What's the MOBB coming2 when the ONLY GUYS THAT DIDN'T RAT WERE 2SHINES AND A JEW 🤡💯😁🤣😁
well he had no choice .The ant was about to wack him
Great show 👏
Good recap. I’ve often wondered, was it ever discovered who was responsible for the bomb place in Frank Rosenthal’s vehicle? I only know Rosenthal was saved by the design of the Cadillac ( metal plate under the driver’s seat) other than that I know nothing "…well I know he was very lucky to survive and intelligent enough to heed the attack and get out of Dodge that’s all though. 30:29
who's Lucy?
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PS. It’s not “Who’s Lucy” the name of her show was “Here’s Lucy”!
BTW…As far as I know Lucy was Lucky Luciano’s little sister.
Take care, sincerely
Doc
Tony and his brother where beaten to almost death and then buried them barely alive stacked ontop each other in the corner of a corn field. What goes around comes around is how the saying goes right? I dont feel the slightest bit sorry for people like them
Whoa. Where did you hear this shocking revelation???
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Hi CTS, awesome video about Tony!! you got a new sub now!!
Great show keep it up 👍🏼
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I couldn’t imagine the stress a gangster like him would be under, not worth the 💰 no way no how 😮
Awesome, love this channel, just found it and just subbed ❤❤❤
Well, tony went out like a true gangster. A true warrior and mad man. Karma always runs its courses
Frank, an associate of Tony works at the Mob Museum in Vega$ 😎
Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
Brilliant. I really enjoyed your video. Looking forward to watching more. 👍👍👍🇬🇧
“…and they lived happily ever after. The End”
Who doesn’t love happy endings!?
got to love thailand plenty of happy endings there
If people think Spilotro was bad, Mad Sam was EVEN WORSE.
Real talk. They didn’t call him “Mad Sam” because he was angry, but because he was crazy. Barking mad CRAZY.
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And they wonder why Chicago is like it is.
Even Lefty had "suggested" it was Joe Aiuppa. The Same farmhouse was owned by his' brother, 65yds from where Tony & Michael were found.
Its called little man complex.. seen it a hundred times in 60 yrs also grew up in chicago in the 60's & 70 's...GOGLIONO & COLUCCI , SHABANI. KNEW SO MANY OF THEM ..
Absolutely brilliant thanks
great fact finding
My uncle Ernest (Skippy) Lehning was in the hole in the wall gang and released from Vegas when they found the brothers in a hole 15 miles away from me
fantastic documentary
"Tough guys, you and your brother"!!!!!
Which led to him getting planted alongside his brother in an Indiana Corn field.
Oh man, here comes the shine box
Ironic that Joe Peshi played both Tony and Tommy. They both had to go home and get their fucking shineboxes!
That's it! Keep that muthahfuckah heyah
Tommy was just a street with no power compared to Tony.
@@rolltide9547 Yeah, but if Joe did a duel role skit as both of them, it would be funny as hell!
It was amongst the Italians. It was real greaseball shit.
Mafia and Vegas wasn't issue until biggest gangsters wasn't getting their cut or TAXES did not increase with money seen in Vegas
Robert Conrad, aka "James West", was a friend of his brother Michael, who was also an actor. He attended their funeral. The only thing thing I could see him having in common with "The Ant" was their height. I heard that when Conrad played "James West" he wore "elevator shoes".
Another similar little "badass" by the way, was Nicky "Scarfo" Scarfano, the 1970's Pennsylvania Mafia "boss" based in Philadelphia; which he was a similar "terror" to.
The real Tony Spilotro has a doppelganger. Fox New's Greg Gutfield .
Next time on "MAN VS FOOD"
You know I was watching this and thinking how cool it would be if you did a video on "Mad Sam" DeStefano. Then I clicked on the video tab, and what do you know? 😄
His relatives pronounce the name Spill ah tro.
Tony's mentor was slick Dick Crocco out of CT, an associate of the Columbo's
The film is spot on with Joe Pesci, since his pals were
Robert Biasccia & even the mob family Genovése.
Pesci was playing as devil's advocate with his pal
Spillatto.
12:52 "Toni System" gun. how fitting
Them mean green cta busses look crazy
Nice job well done
Frank Collatta said lefty hated Tony the ant because he had an affair with Lefty’s wife and the ant was so well hung it gave Lefty brain damage.
I think it you with brain damage. Fantasying about a killers junk! Weird thoughts…
Is that True ? 😂
@@anthonymckenzie5182 True, it’s in one of the Videos and Frank disclosed this detail.
3.39-what did i tell you? Dont buy anything or youll get us all pinched!....great documentary,it must have been quite a life,partying in 70s vegas,knowing today could be your last day.
One of our greatest, RIP
Elmwood is where I knew of the Mobs' existence. Although I stayed in Melrose they ran everything. Scary.
Crazy the Mob keep the crime down in Vegas
Yet, while committing their own crimes in Vegas.
By all accounts one piece of work and more!
Great job kid. You didn’t miss much. Well done indeed. Be careful when u. Do these and god forbid you get a story or a fact wrong. If the people you’re talking about find any holes in your story, you may get in some hot waters. Even now so as long as you’re talking well & have studied all facts, and have varied your facts line you did with this one, u should be five! Many of these men have left us. The glory days of Chicago are no more. So let’s at least get the fact right for the new generations of tough kids on the street. All we got left are old farts like me and the stories. All the good times are gone …
Are you an old time Gangster?
Shut up stupid, nobody cares about these dinosaurs. They're all 80IQ dummies, much like yourself.
Sir did you ever meet Tony Spilotro?
Man no one is killing no one today inside or out the mob I have family in Italy real Family this is a joke , we live in a day and age everybody is a rat and mobsters have podcasts 😂😂😂 get freaking real
The glory days of the entire mob is over. Of course, that doesn't mean they aren't still powerful, at least in NYC, and doing their thing, but the unbelievable grip they had through to the 80s is gone.
what hsppened to his shinebox?
do a video on micheal franzese
why... ? - Michael tells his OWN LIES in his videos.
He's boring
:033 spilotro (standing on left) and frank cullotta(sitting on left, with the curly hair)
i had to stop im laughing at names
The thing they don't tell you is how well he treated us kids. Always giving money and even paid our bail when six of us got in trouble.
What model / make of car is that one blue car on minute 6:33?
Ford Galaxie second gen coupe I'm pretty sure. Most likely a 1960.
Whoop! Coffee and mob crime!
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Salute
I met many of these men, Anthony was a good man. Much love to Tony his nephew ima gonna send this to Anthony M*******edit I have pictures and will share them. See men like these men are honorable, with great morals, just dont fuck them over, follow the rules and you are good, play games well.....i know killers, killers who i trust far more than so many so called good men. The shit that youall think that is mafia, you dont understand that these so called mafia is just Brothers who were able to take the game to a higher level. Politicians today do far worse and the media just does not report on a puppet politician because the money trail ends up in a place you arent supposed to see. Extortion fuck that, what do you call a politician?
They were still murders regardless of anything else. Honestly, how can you call anyone a "good man" when they rob and kill people?
Tony Spilotro was a god damn lunatic and anyone that got in his way found out. Anyone that committed crimes the way he did and still sought out the spot light of the media has to have a screw loose
Haha clown😂
Cool stories, but its difficult to watch with all the extreme ZOOMING and super close up shots.
He was a very friendly person in the park he walked his poodle and sang songs for old ladies he was very nice to pidgeons too
unless they were "STOOL" pidgeons..lol
I didn’t realise that casino was best on a true story
So that the " Shine box shoes" story/ scene in "Goodfellas" when they was in the bar is true 😫😫
Imagine that a neighborhood with predominantly politicians and high-ranking Mobsters go figure
I love how Joe Pecsi played 2 Gansters who happened to shine shoes as children.
Don't care,no Dwarf would play tough guy with me😅😅😂
It’s refreshing to find a fact based channel with accurate content and minimal commercial interruptions. Cheers!
"fact based channel"
At some point he mentionned a dark blue ford then proceed to show the picture of a blue metallic Cadillac ... It was enough for me to stop. 🥸
I’ve lived and worked in the casino business in Vegas since 1977 and I must say the 70’s were the heydays for this town. It was tons of fun.
Stories? Must have been extremely fun back then.
100%
I worked at the Flamingo in the 30s..... Quite a time, true class of gangsters back then.
@@Kruppt808 the Flamingo didn’t exist before 1946.
Summer Maness some are Knott ⛩️
Talk about fumbling the bag. If he could have kept his cool they could have milked that cow for decades. That’s what you get putting a sociopath in charge.
The fear they had in him is why they weren't bothered with so that sociopath energy was needed
The fear they had in him is why they weren't bothered with so that sociopath energy was needed
Are there non sociopath mob enforcers? 😂
@@DennyBass yes, I believe there are.
@@jerrymylove1754 I doubt it, to be a enforcer you have to kill and maim on command ,no questions asked, at that point I think it forces you to become a sociopath
Funny that Pesci is actually taller than Spilotro.
Pesci was born to play Spilatro aka Santoro in Casino.
At 5'4 amazing 😅
that because Pesci always stood on his shoe shine box while filming his scenes
Little guys get angry.
Manson was a little guy too. He always made a scene to get people to back off. People beat the crap outta him in prison, tho. They were sick of his schtick
I busted out laughing as soon as he said shine Box 😂
Got on his knees for the homemade meatballs 😋 😂😂😂😂
Same actor, different movie. Lol
He should have never said that 😊
What's funny??
Shine box business was lucrative back then.He actually stepped up to creating a shinebox franchise in chicago ,north side and he was bringing in serious money
Oscar Goodman became mayor. So did his wife. I moved there in 1980. I was 30. It was so small back then compared to now. The old places are gone. The new ones are gigantic. I drove a taxi for five years on the Strip. Those were the days. Casino captured that time like no other movie.
@Jaegar19Ultima It was truly spectacular. Only 500 cabs in the whole town so you know business was great. Buffets, Steak and lobster - $5.99 Sinatra at Caesar's and Martin at Bally's. What do folks in their 30's do now? Try to figure out pronouns? I'm laughing at the sheer absurdity. More manic than mirth in that laughter some days. Good luck to you, sir or madam. Pick one.
@Jaegar19Ultima A millennial with the heart of a boomer. My parents lived through the Great Depression and WWII so their stories were better than history books. Especially the rewritten ones in schools these days. My grandparents - wow. I listened all the time to whatever they said. Tempus fugit. Take care.
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@@mikeyh0
Guy like you should write a Book
about Hackin' in that place and time.
It's not a point of perception we have a great deal of literature on.
I'm almost certain it would do well in sales.
@@mikeyh0i love the casino world. I wish I could of been born back then. Seems like life was better back then.
anyone, beside myself notice. in their pictures their eyes seem cold, and unforgiving. Like there is no warmth in their eyeballs, their eyes seem dense
Shark eyes……. Google a picture of a shark…. It’s very similar.
Psychos have no soul....
The cost for real gangster life.
@@MarkMcCray-gg3wx for real!!!
They have no souls
I saw the Las Vegas Mob museum displaying his weapons and personal effects such as the playing card he carried. The guy didn’t mess around.
Yea I seen it too at the vegas mob museum I took a bunch of pics
"Now go home and get your shine box" 😂
You mutt! Keep em here!
"You're a funny guy"
Then gets “made” and actually believes it😂
In goodfellas, Joe pescie's character kills Billy bats. Played by Dennis Farrina. In casino his character is killed by Dennis farrinas character. With baseball bats.
😂😂😂
Amazing detail (I think) at 03.41 we see the real Nicky's lawyer walking alongside him. In the movie, I think its the same guy in the movie when Nicky says "If a guy tripped over a banana peel, they would bring me in"
Oscar Goodman, his wife is now the mayor of Las Vegas after he served three terms.
I lived in Vegas when the cases were going down. Big stuff. Many things changed and the money flowed differently.
Never met anthony but from what ive heard and read joe pesci nailed that role perfect
Really you never met him?
🤣@@EmperorNerox
I’m met him once, he’s a funny guy
@@itsfinebecauseoftheimpli-bs1sl
So He Was There To Amuse You???
@@madpeace1764Naaah, it's just, it's a good story the way he told it
Some will say that Tony Spilotro had it coming. Heaven knows he left a trail of bodies that he probably lost count on many years before he died. I don't know about any of that. But, I do wonder why things go as far as they do. The greed, the need to kill because of that greed. As a civilized society, we are becoming more and more uncivilized every day. We have hate in our hearts, and we divide ourselves so easily. And all for what? For things that we can't take with us anyway?
Exactly, I say the same thing , all the time! " Mass confusion [people] 12:06 loosing by the minute, trying to win it!" The majority of the public are insecure individuals!
Your not civilised
A couple of weeks before Spilotro came up missing my brother and a friend went into the Food Factory a restaurant Tony bought for his wife. When they got their food Spilotro pulled up a chair and asked my brother how was the food. My brother recognized him as the guy who puts icepicks in people's heads. They ate their food and never went back. Everybody in town knew who he was.
When I read this it was in the part where he asked them how’s the food 😂..crazy
Tony would have been better off in prison but with Tony's failing heath after a heart attack, Tony was living on borrowed time. He had 3 criminal trials and the first one ended in a mistrial after the judge suspected jury tampering with 2 jurors most likely bought. The lawyer in Casino follow behind Tony is Oscar Goodman who later would be mayor of Las Vegas was a real good lawyer. He kept Tony out of prison and beat any charges that Tony got indicted for. Tony was loose cannon and brought so much heat and the Arty Piscano the one that had the expense accounting he had in real life the guy was Carl De Luna. His house was raided in 1979 and those expense books he wrote down everything connected the dots that led a lot of mobsters including 5 bosses to go to prison essentially for the rest of their lives.
well put. I read the book Casino by Nicholas Pileggi. Excellent material and very detailed. But man there were alot of side characters like a Russian Novel. Who was this and what was he connected to that. Good thing Carl wrote everything down because even with a book it was tough to keep everything straight.
Imagine living your whole life looking over your shoulder. I’d rather be broke.