Mob on the Run - 1987 Documentary - Las Vegas

[@Rocks_Dad]

This is hands down the top of the top in the quality mob related documentaries. This is a gem and anything relatively new would have 15% of the local news budget that made this. This was a home run of local documentaries. Wish I knew of more like this.

[@Silvertone58]

There's something to be said of this kind of unpolished, editorial style. It's very informational, and doesn't waste time on production and cinematic extras often found in todays documentaries.

[@John-xw5zg]

Seriously though modern day mob documentaries have been completely ruined by cheesey low budget reenactments.

[@powell4661]

I have heard that the great mob reporter was an ex-hoodlum and that his father had connections the Milwaukee crime family

[@Tres_Nueve]

@@powell4661 the guy in this video? I wouldn't be surprised. He sounds like he's talking about his friends.

[@SLCtica]

This is the kind of reporting Americans were accustomed to prior to the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under the Reagan admin which spawned the creation of explicitly biased networks like Fox News and MSNBC

[@xtvnnn]

agree 10000% its hard to find ANY youtube video with a cringey "HI GUYS!" at the beginning

[@damiencraig7651]

That documentary should be in the bonus dvd of Casino

[@harrietharlow9929]

That's a great idea!

[@pauliepecans4213]

No way there could be a more solid bundle set than that

[@akbarshoed]

It's BETTER than Casino

[@EyesWideOpen61]

A good documentary like this is better than any movie in my view Certainly if you want to know what actually happened

[@akbarshoed]

@@EyesWideOpen61 true

[@damienbrown1561]

I love how informative this documentary is, one of the best I've ever seen , no extras , no fancy cgi and reenactment, just straight to the point in a detailed and compelling manner.

[@Chelz12]

No cheap stuff

[@binko969]

Rosenthal arguing with the gaming commission = classic. Tons of really great news archive footage from the 70s. Great post thanks.

[@erichhartmann9797]

Haha. Nice Johnny Dio avatar bud

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Scorsese took his script verbatim from this footage. Pretty cool

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

​@@erichhartmann9797 🥃👴🏻 HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

​@@matthewgabbard6415 👴🏻🥃WEAR DUH WHITE WOMEN AT?

[@fluffles9591]

They took care of the slot machine manager and if they did the same with the gaming commission, mafia would still be running vegas instead of it turning into Disneyland

[@TheBlackMambaa248]

I was born in 1996, but I’ll be dammed if this isn’t one of the most interesting things I’ve ever watched. The evolution of Las Vegas always intrigued me.

[@joshschaeffer3300]

Chicago Outfit is some fascinating reading imo, Scarface Al, Accardo, Giancana and the kennedy brothers, CIA, Vegas, murder and mayhem, betrayal and greed, romance. It has it all. Learn some of the players in the outfit, read the book Casino, watch the movie, probably plenty more great docs on KZbin, then theres plenty of books on the outfit and Vegas specifically. I suggest getting the background and the players down first, chances are you haven't heard of many of them if you're not familiar with Chicago O.C. and its entirely possible to very familiar with LCN and know nothing about The Outfit, you might feel lost if you dive right in and you lose alot of context. It wont take long and you'll have all the players and background. Its American History, major events will make sense or be given a whole new depth and you'll see how seemingly separate events and people connect, like dominoes or a puzzle, and names you'll come across have there own epic story and mystery after you finish with Vegas or break for awhile. Definetly Macchiavellian if nothing else, and you didnt learn it in school. Which is a sad commentary on what is learned in history class.

[@gstate4ever]

I’m 14 years older and I feel the same way. I went a few times as a kid and in my twenties. Recently My chick and I have been three times in the last 7 months. After the first trip I became very intrigued by the city it’s evolution and just trying to get a taste of what it was like before it went corporate.

[@johnfranklin8319]

The key is the mob got access to the Teamsters Pension Fund, instead of Bugsy and the gang putting up 5, 6 million, they had access to 30, 40, 50 million!

[@sammyholdem2492]

Yea it's sad out there now. 1996 means you know Wayne Newton as Mr. Las Vegas 🙄. Moe Dalitz the real Mr las Vegas

[@alechendrix9367]

I’m from the same year 🫡

[@VegasRey]

This was so good! As a Vegas local, I am fascinated by our city's checkered history. It is 2024 now, and I don't think anyone envisioned this city would be where it is now.

[@fluffles9591]

100 years the entire city will become the strip

[@jeandarc5900]

Old documentaries are so much better than the new ones

[@rca6576]

Yes, they are because they are not made to be dramatic and just be a “story” They deal in less drama and more factual information. I wish the news was still like that.

[@roncur]

Facts

[@stevenbrian3001]

They don't hide anything they say it how it is

[@opencurtin]

This documentary explains how the movie Casino came into being , I never knew the backdrop to it , excellent historic mob Docu .

[@russellsimmons5795]

Although dated, one of the best mob doc's I've seen.

[@jeremyweems4916]

That's why it's one of the best. It's just the story without all the acting and dramatization.

[@hpsilentkill7888]

Anything NOT dated at this point is usually watered down, low IQ, steaming pile of hot shit garbage. So I'm cool with it being dated.

[@RochesterNY607]

I watch this a couple times a year, this and Crime inc., best mob docs on KZbin

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 YEA CRIME INC. HAD BITS AND PIECES OF THIS BETTER DOCUMENTARY AND THIS DOCUMENTARY HAVE HIGH FIDELITY SOUND UNLIKE CRIME INC’S MONO SOUND.

[@sickboy3636]

Incredible how accurate the movie Casino actually was. Impressive!

[@ray817oneDEEP]

@@mrp3263 kinda. Franks wife did fk spilotra. The brothers did get beat and inside a field. Frank did have his own show

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

@@mrp3263 it is

[@mrp3263]

@@ray817oneDEEP brothers didn't get beat in a field. Lefty used to tie up his wife so she couldn't leave. Lefty was a high level FBI informant.

[@mrp3263]

@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 read more.

[@glenndouglas8822]

​​@@ray817oneDEEPThe brothers were killed in a basement and were NOT allowed to pray before hand and by the numerous sources, they were beat to death but did NOT die quickly. They were then taken to a field and buried.

[@FreeOpenTruth]

"You could of had the food and beverage job without going on TV! And what the f*ck are you doing on TV anyhow?! You know I get calls from back home thinking you went batshit?!?!"

[@desmondcastro3679]

Frank Rosenthal show wasn't a joke. It was a great talk show which promoted exciting entertainment shows and events of Las Vegas.

[@j2times2006]

Aces High! With the Sasha Seminoff orchestra! And the Ace Rothstein dancers!

[@bedmanokc]

This is one of the coolest videos ever. Well done.

[@crescentcity3407]

Used to like to stay at the Stardust back in the day. Yeah it was not fancy like Bellagio, but it felt like You were stepping back in time. R.I.P. to the Stardust.

[@dpjacobs28]

I loved the stardust. Favorite place to stay and play. It was the way gaming should be. Pretty sad when it all went to dust.

[@alneri3706]

An equel amount of blueberries in each muffin!!!..

[@drewb007]

Al Neri Do you know how long that's going to take?

[@mh20767]

Al Neri lol

[@joejoejohnson8207]

Casino lol

[@robertthomas2601]

Peek-a-boo, you fucks you!

[@j2times2006]

It’s like everything else in this place you don’t do it it never gets done

[@ryanburke5383]

For an old doc from 87, this is quite good. Im a fan of defunct stores and malls. I recently delved into Casino videos. Old and new. It led me here. I really enjoy learning where they got the bones for both the book and movie version of Casino. And the Pesci casting was on point.

[@ryanburke5383]

Also, seeing how horribly people tried to hold onto some sort of hair is hilarious. Terrible rugs. A comb over from not the back yard, a block behind that. Its from the neighbors yard

[@FreeOpenTruth]

Frank Cullotta was the reason the movie Casino got made. Without him, it would have been unauthentic!

[@tooberetta]

@@ryanburke5383 LOL!! Remember Maury from Goodfellas with those horrible toupees

[@fluffles9591]

All the stores in vegas strip are all corporate or owned by the same company

[@paulyricca3881]

@@tooberetta 🥃👴🏻 LETZ PICK UP SOME DANISHES FOR BELLE. BELLE LOVES DANISH.

[@randomhero33]

This is the greatest 80s vegas mob casino doc I've seen

[@MasterTywalker]

Fabulous documentary. Sadly, Ned day passed shortly after the airing of this documentary. A year before this video was made the mob blew his car up and Ned declared it “the happiest day of my life; the day the mob bombed my car.” Obviously, Ned was not in the car. I love these older documentaries that are so close to the timeline of its content.

[@neverhating_63HREE]

Ima bout to fact check that I hope I’m not wasting my time cause if that’s true that’s insane

[@Slimc74]

Rosenthals argument was a legit one, and i can understand him being upset. The point that he made about everyone involved with gambling in early Las Vegas had some sort of run in with the law was undeniable

[@VintageLasVegas]

45:24. Does his argument contain much substance? The two minor points Rosenthal is pressing Reid on had nothing to do with his hearing. The story that they're referring to, by the way, were allegations of Attorney General, a married man, carrying on affairs at the Stardust, at the hotel's cost. Chairman Reid and the AG were among those depicted by the composite "Senator" character in Casino.

[@kerbygator]

Rahul Bhaskar Pay em or whack em.

[@ddgallion]

I not an attorney, so I don't know the details of the legal challenges, but I think Frank had a legitimate beef with the gaming authorities. Frank was far from innocent when it came to having ties to organized crime, but practically everyone involved with gaming in any way at that time benefited directly or indirectly and were part of the corruption. That having been said, Frank knew how to run a casino. He was certainly no angel, but at that time many of the people involved in gaming had backgrounds that involved illegal gambling at one time or another. I can understand the citizenry wanting to clean-up the business, but when corrupt officials who had benefited pretend like they were not part of what was going on, it is more than a little hypocritical.

[@lizziejohnson9609]

ddgallion. yeah....but unfortunately for frank....his "bosses" in Chicago didn't want nor did they care bout his civil rights....

[@ddgallion]

Lizzie Johnson, you got that right. Frank was lucky to get out of casino management alive. I was not suggesting it was a wise move to make trouble, get in the news, and go on television, I think it was foolish. I was just suggesting that many of the people involved with gaming in the early days had backgrounds that involved illegal gambling, and that many of the government officials that had been happy to look the other way, and even benefit financially, were being hypocritical when they condemned corruption in gaming. I was not suggesting that corruption nor organized crime was acceptable or should be ignored.

[@kumazuma1]

very very good. Would be great if it could be updated and continued. I for one cannot get enough of vegas history..more please

[@JC-wo2py]

"Everybody out here with cowboy boots is a County Commissioner or related to a County Commissioner"

[@SBIFILMSminivan]

You know they say you've gone bat shit?

[@AudioBotnik]

You can't get rid of them, there juiced in....

[@2009blahblah]

And I'm fucking sick of it

[@BenHurren]

"There's a lot of holes in the dessert. And a lot of problems buried in those holes. But you have to do it right. I mean you have to have the hole already dug. Otherwise you dont know who'll come along. You might have to dig a few more holes. You might be there all f**king night!"

[@makepeace234]

Vegas in the 80's so much fun; Binions crap tables in for 1 or 2 bucks plus FREE non watered down drinks!

[@surferdude7569]

big brute security guards,that would take you out back at beat the shit out of you .ah the good ol days .great times

[@makepeace234]

Lol only if you were caught cheating!

[@surferdude7569]

lol i remember when they took a guy out back and beat the living shit out of him or being underage and standing next to the million dollar horseshoe. without an adult next to you the security apes will grab you by the arm or back of the shirt an throw you out .done that a few times

[@MacGregor.]

People age

[@desmondcastro3679]

Captain pushy !

[@dfuller968]

Never seen so many shady characters in one documentary. SUBBED!!!

[@kapo2012fb]

One of the best docs I've seen on KZbin

[@mrjasonwhite73]

He should have taken the food and beverage job.

[@LoganWood121]

He could've take the food and beverage job without going on television! He WANTED to go on television!

[@StormFive]

@@LoganWood121 yea he wanted to go on TV so he could fight back! People needed to know they couldn't f*ck around!

[@vazdogs7910]

he wouldn't even be in this situation if it wasn't for Nicky. He brought down so much fuckin heat on him, I mean every time he met somebody the big question is "does he know Nicky?"

[@StormFive]

@@lvgolfer35 Nicky asked him?!?!?! When the flip did Nicky ask him? He only existed out there because of Nicky!

[@whereswolly7705]

Nice to see a few casino fans top film. I can't watch things unless it's based on a true story and mafia shit is interesting especially running Las Vegas. Bps I'm a degenerate gambler like remo haha

[@billholdensaunt4086]

thank you vintage lv for posting this! i have seen partial segments of this in other series, however the extended versions make this very pleasant to watch. a no bs look at the outfit and i for one find it all fascinating. i was born in chicago and still remain here to this day as a senior citizen. great great stuff here and very informative. thanks again!

[@SMC01ful]

It's great to see they made real doco's years ago. It's a good backgrounder and Ned Day should be proud.

[@lt4324]

The Vegas I loved back then! Best times for sure!

[@Silvertone58]

I love the DEVO music between segments

[@Matthew-S75]

Is it devo? Nice

[@BEERLIGHTBROKER]

Thank you for posting this Vintage Las Vegas.

[@TheMusicIsMyReason]

I come from a long line of old time gamblers and the old mob run casinos were great. You could eat and drink for nothing and even if you lost at the games, you still got your money's worth. If you were a regular player they'd give your free rooms, comped shows and meals. They knew that the money was really made at the games. It's not like that now where they nickel and dime you for every little thing.

[@Veaseify]

I heard a casino host say that its hard to get great comps for his players because the Hotels make more money from the rooms, restaurants, bars and nightclubs now than they do from gambling. 20 years ago 70 percent of the hotel revenue came from the casino, now its more like 40 percent.

[@christineadams1284]

Steve Veasey You are correct. I live here. People are not gambling much anymore, they spend it on food, entertainment, alcohol, women etc. Now they charge people to park in the casino garages because they are losing so much money with people not gambling much. Many of the companies are just teetering on bankruptcy.

[@harmgregory4560]

Sure got a point. I've stopped going.

[@quattro4468]

Some charge for parking. You can be wrinkly and and have a beard and asked for ID.

[@Mewithabeard]

@@VladCepes1 And you come from a long line trollers. An age old tradition for people with small nobs and no one to talk to but random people on the Internet

[@brentcline4552]

I enjoy seeing this old footage of the Vegas mob. I grew up in Vegas and in 1974-76 I played little league baseball with Tony Spilotro’s nephew, John. Tony would occasionally come to our games and bet on the pitches during the game.

[@A-L-o]

That's pretty damn cool. Part of history 🙂

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

👴🏻🥃 I PLAYED HOP SCOTCH WID CAPONE

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

​@@A-L-o 💅🏻🧓💅🏻 IS MY NAILS DRY TEE HEE?

[@bailinnumberguy]

I'm guessing that "Ice Pick" Willy Alderman didn't get his nickname from defrosting freezers.

[@haroldslawter4185]

Randy Bailin you know what a nickname awesome

[@MissCane9]

LOL

[@sammyholdem2492]

Fax

[@dennissettlemyre917]

They're frikkin agents, Frankie!! $100 to the first one who hits the plane.

[@mrjasonwhite73]

Just what he needed. Right in front of the control board.

[@Nunya100]

I love how the actual press conference and the movie are so identical, great job Mr. Deniro as always, kudos and kudos again for posting this doc.

[@sean5520]

“Thanks for not calling me a liar”

[@jetknight7562]

Didn't robert de niro say the same thing on the movie Casino..

[@johnathanrush4666]

​@@jetknight7562he did

[@God_Body313]

“Thanks for not callin me a luy-er”

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻😆 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@RayMrCustomerservice]

Yes old documentaries are very Raw to the point. Love them. No covering up.

[@josephrivett6158]

"State officials conducted their on investigation, and cleared Harry Reid....." Well, isn't THAT just SOOOOO convenient !!!!!!

[@Moose-sg3qp]

Wow this is a great documentary a lot of information and clips that explain the times very well. I’m thankful for this, you can feel what the times were like. Why would anyone dislike this is beyond me. Thank you

[@RequestToSpeak]

I was a journalist at the tail end of Harry Reid's career. It's wild to see him as a younger man operating at a local level vs his eventual status of DC Swamp Creature. He might be underrated as a pivotal figure in our time.

[@stevenm9892]

I just love how the gaming commission can deny Lefty a license yet they had no problem granting Frank Sinatra one. a man with well known ties to mob figures.

[@steaksiscooked]

Sinatra's license was REVOKED in 1963, and he was forced to give him his partnership in Cal-Neva. He didn't get licensed again until the 80s. Lefty was overseeing a system that skimmed from 4 casinos. Very big difference there.

[@stevenm9892]

Los Angeles your completely missing my point. When lefty was denied a license the skim had not yet even been discovered by the feds. And when the skim was finally figured out the feds could never prove lefty had anything to do with it. He was only put in there by Chicago to oversee the casino day to day operations. So by definition lefty was no different than Sinatra yet he was denied a hearing yet Sinatra flat out lied to the gaming commission.

[@frankdenardo8684]

Steven M Dean Martin did also have mob connections

[@brooksfleming7643]

Sinatra wasn't taking any money out their pockets tho.

[@brooksfleming7643]

Fun fact: Sinatra couldn't pay for the Ali-Frazier fight. So he recorded it for them ringside to watch it. But the older I get the more I think they just let him in. Lol

[@sugarmagnolia1506]

My uncle Joe Nesline was friends with Frank Rosenthal and helped him in Vegas. He never spoke of him being the gambling kingpin of DC and his ties with the Mob to any of us. He was, however the best uncle I had. He passed in 1995, I miss him tremendously.

[@edwardlouiscruz]

Tell me more

[@flyitrightbaby]

The Mob Museum in Vegas is definitely worth visiting.

[@jamesd242]

Who needs it if you grew up at Grand and Harlem

[@MathewMcDonald-dy8zg]

I always come back to watch this every couple of years. Classic old school documentary.

[@satchpersaud8762]

Great doc, it seems the older docs are way better than the new ones, there more raw and informative

[@trissloan2340]

Naturally, compared to what we have today, the production value seems archaic. But the meat and potatoes, or substance composing this video document is excellent.🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🐼🐼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱

[@MrShobar]

Actually, the Teamster Central States Pension Fund loans to Las Vegas was, in retrospect, the best (inadvertently) investment it ever made.

[@1978garfield]

Their pension is currently funded at 14% I believe. Shame some of of that skim did not make it back to the pension fund.

[@ChairmanMo]

The pension was looted by the mob and the crooked Teamster leaders.

[@frankdenardo8261]

@@ChairmanMo Alan Dorfman and were involved.

[@Howrider65]

The corporate takeover was worse.. You can't win nothing anymore and food cost bucks now. No $1.99 breakfast anymore. And $6.00 steaks.

[@Bleste011]

The house always wins.

[@panbandits]

Agree , the government went after mob cause they preferred the corporate mafia who donate lots of money to them and now Vegas is not the same , the vibe is like Disney and not affordable .

[@MotorCityPlayer]

Just watched this one. Haven't seen any new documentaries on the mob on YT lately but came across this one. It's an older program, but the story is still the same.

[@brentcline2109]

I love to see these old mafia tapes and footage especially in Las Vegas. I grew up in Vegas and in 1974-76 I played little league baseball with Tony Spilotro's nephew, John. Tony would occasionally show up to our games and bet on the outcomes of pitches during the games.

[@johnhunter8965]

I was living in LV 1982 .....met a lot of the "guys", even worked in a phone sales scam for them a little while. All just for fun. I can't tell you why I was really there, but the word went out I was a Fed,(I wasnt), and it was amazing the level of respect I suddenly got. A real hoot. Those guys really ran that town back then.

LOL, that didn't happen and you, and now I, know it. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOo

[@Patrick_B687-3]

John Hunter, Did you ever run into Steve Schirippa back then?

[@frankdenardo8261]

1982 was the year that Frank Rosenthal's car got bombed.

[@opencurtin]

Its never been the same since Elvis and Sinatra died ..

[@pszitalian10]

and Dino

[@realslowtunes]

Phil Dino spimoni?

[@frankdenardo8684]

Dj Slowtunes Dean Martin

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@pszitalian10 the rat pack.

[@davidkess3750]

A tremendous example on 1987 Video editing & sound production for TV News.

[@chappye7]

And ask anyone who lives and worked in the big casinos and you'll find many people liked it when the mob ran the hotels, they all suck now.

[@yesflipthetables401]

Patrick Chapman who exactly runs them now... bush/cia???

[@starandfox601]

a big fat cat from out of town that doesn't care about anything besides squeezing ever dime out of everyone.the last true las vegas thing to go was the newspaper which the big fat cat bought through deceit.

[@elmagodelmaryahoo]

Despite the somewhat sophomoric format of this vid's editing, it is without question the finest and most comprehensive documentary on "the evolution of Las Vegas" that I have ever watched.…. and I've watched many. This detailed compilation of remarkable archival news and interview footage makes this vid a definite Historical Document.... Though, to end this otherwise sterling production by alluding that 'The Skim' is no longer an issue in Vegas, and, that The Mob is no longer central to that issue, is a bit naïve....

[@TheLAKERSareGodsTeam]

49:43 "I would love to respond to you, because you're very articulate!". I have to remember to use that one lol

[@Albertanator]

This is fascinating...my Sister in Law knew Moe Dalitz because she worked in Vegas in the 60's...in fact I have a picture of her with Moe from a party back in the mid 60's or so......

[@patrickJ27]

Great Documentary!! Mob history has always been interesting

[@jsmendo1]

I was a slot machine mechanic at many of the casinos in the late 1970s, and the early 1980s. Las Vegas was a beautiful city. The casinos made the working man feel important. You can tip maitre D 10.00 and get the best seats in the house. They got the mob out and Las Vegas became garbage. Thugs run the streets. Crime is out of control. Everything is overly expensive. Las Vegas is now a crime ridden over priced junk city. The mob talk the government how to skim and funny how gambling became legal all across the country. Now even sports betting and the lottery are everywhere. The United States government is much worse than the mob ever was.

[@Silvertone58]

Great piece. Thanks for uploading.

[@eazye088]

In the end we fucked it all up. It should've been so sweet too. But it turned out to be the last time street guys like us were given anything that fucking valuable again.

[@danmac7145]

Eric Dizzy too many mob movies

[@praytherosaryeveryday2709]

Lol

[@mh20767]

Eric Dizzy Wow, word for word.

[@flashman7612]

@Eric Dizzy..You tell em killer!

[@Nunya100]

Eric Dizzy lmao, you hear that Frankie, sounds like a little girl! 😂😂😂

[@tylergonzalez6627]

“Frank Rosenthal….bookmaker and BASKETBALL FIXER” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a title. No wonder Scorsese made movies out of these guys’ lives. The audacity lol and also… legendary. Great documentary.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 I SERVE AT MR GLICKS PLEASURE.

[@phyllispatterson7352]

Loved the historical footage.

[@RochesterNY607]

This is amazing, great upload...

[@skatee99]

Very well done. Thanks for the effort to make this.

[@Sammydx1]

My Uncle Frankie was dealer then a floor boss at the Stardust. He left Chicago in 1968 and moved there. My Mother and Father spoke very highly about him. They said when they would go visit everything was taken care of.

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

oh man are you kidding??? I worked with Frankie at the stardust. Amazing man, he definitely made work fun. Tell him Danny Sanchez said hello

[@alexcarter8807]

This is entertaining and informative, plus ahh the 80s - I can almost smell the hot phenolic circuit boards being cooked in a CRT TV (CRT sets ran hot).

[@andywindes4968]

For my money, this was the best documentary every done about the mob in Las Vegas. Day was something else. I have the original airing (with the original commercials) on VHS tape. Around the same time, George Knapp made "UFO's: The Best Evidence," which was really pretty good. I recorded it as well, and still have it. I remember showing it to my ex-father-in-law, who, worked at The Ranch, and he got a big kick out of it. I used to drink occasionally with Knapp at a little bar near Channel 8 and never felt that he was anything less than a serious journalist covering a subject in a serious way.

[@bowlinglefty]

Informative documentary. Good videos of old Las Vegas. Knowing how Harry (Clean Face) Reid operated in the Senate, I'd be inclined to give Frank Rosenthal the benefit of the doubt.

[@Joscope]

boy is that ever the truth.. Watching ole Harry Reid try and yammer his way out of that confrontation with Lefty in front of the press is priceless. Makes you wonder how many high dollar cons and rip offs the honorable senate majority leader's been responsible for since the 70s..

[@pillman8719]

Harry Reid is such a sleaze ball. How he kept getting reelected is beyond me.

[@paularein2021]

bowlingleft

[@nicmart]

If you ignore the cheating and the murder.

[@jasoncreel4807]

bowling

[@robertthomas2601]

Good grief I just learned this reporter's car was firebombed shortly after doing this story. He luckily wasn't in the car, but he died about a year later of a "heart attack" (at age 42...). His name was Ned Day. RIP.

[@mepperganfortas]

He died in HI on vacation. Lived there in the mid to late 80s. They actually had an autopsy to make sure the mob didn't hit him. They firebombed his car as a warning.

[@headiero]

This was a lot of fun to watch.

[@ericspero996]

Great upload! Loved seeing the old footage of Vegas and the people who were running things

[@3373-g8z]

As it went through the opening of the Frank Rosenthal Show, I realized how badly I miss those 70s days. All those icons are gone, just like the 70s. Greatest time period of human existence. If people would just remember, they'd realize how much happier they were then. Things have gotten so bad now.

[@vladimirputinforUSA]

💯 FACTS… the 70s were truly the greatest time to ever exist. Sad part is it can never be repeated. NYC between 73-79 was absolutely insane. People were a lot happier even if you were broke. The people were just different than today.

[@JoePlett]

This is an old TV presentation with built-in breaks for commercials.... yet KZbin's algorithm ignores those and inserts ads mid-sentence into programming. Get better at ad insertion KZbin! 😏 Interesting piece of TV history. Glad it could be preserved here. Even with disruptive ads.

[@MrShobar]

Howard Hughes handed organized crime the biggest reward: Allowing them to get out, with cash in hand.

[@frankdenardo8684]

MrShobar unfortunately. the mob went nowhere.

[@frankdenardo8261]

@Peter Nadreau the mob stayed in towne.

[@paulyricca3881]

@@frankdenardo8261 😫 WHAT? WHEN? WHY?

[@Randy.E.R]

I grew up in California about two hours from Las Vegas. Between 1979 and 1982 our high school band used to visit LV a few times a year to either perform in the parade our play in other performances. Our high school was small so it was a blast to go perform with some bigger schools. During my senior year some of us from the jazz band made friends with some others in LV and jammed with them a few times with ambitions to become famous one day. Well, we never did make it big but we had a lot of fun. Las Vegas was a much different city then. The population was about 250,000 then; a bitchen city compared to where we were from. We had no clue about all the mob dealings. I liked it there so much, I married my wife there in 1983. 41 years later we are still happily married. I can't believe how much the city has grown. Assuming everything in this video is accurate it would be impossible for me to believe the mob still doesn't have some kind of control there. Maybe not as much as before, but that's a lot of money passing through that city without someone having their dirty hands involved

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 FIRST

[@braddocke.hutton7392]

I miss the days where a guy on vacation with his wife could be taken into the back room of a casino and have his thumbs broken, and then see Frank Sinatra sing that same night.

[@gregmullanax4986]

Excellent video. thanks for posting.

[@praytherosaryeveryday2709]

Don't shit on his name

[@jayceeo673]

"They said Michael Corleone did this and Michael Corleone did that"

[@TheJking85]

7:30 Virginia Hill looks like Judy Garland. They both knew a lot of swear words too.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 WUTS A SWEAR WORD?

[@slimtimes.l.l.c4081]

I love these old mobb stories....😁

[@ronniebishop2496]

We stayed at The Marina across from the Tropicana and did we have a ball!!! Hahahaha

[@ronniebishop2496]

Adam Markman No I sure didn’t. I knew we were told to stay there and I found out later it was part of the mobs hotel chain. lol, but we had a lot of fun for a small hotel. We stayed at the Tuscany the last time we stayed at a hotel and it’s a friend too.

[@ronniebishop2496]

Adam Markman Well I was much younger, and in the first time I went to Vegas it was a high school graduation present and I watched them land on the moon, lol. Now I would call it the 9th wonder of the world, but like you said in a way, bigger isn’t always better. 99 cents for breakfast and more lol. My aunt said that when she first moved there in the early 60s the slots off the strip were so lose, she almost always paid her grocery bill playing them every week.!

[@zombiepanzon]

Great video very well research and easy to understand

[@sparksatnite9578]

I worked at the stardust till it went down, it had secret passages and a secret tunnel that had been blocked off, that they say the mob would use in case of a bust, I was allowed to roam the building at will and would trip out how I could pop out in an area without being noticed, it was pretty cool...

[@luisnoone6993]

SparksAt Nite I would love to know more 🙂

[@confucius12012]

SparksAt Nite - Interesting. Yeah, I used to enter the stardust from a side door that went through a corridor that lead to the Sportsbook area. I always thought it was a strange entrance.

[@luisnoone6993]

confucius12012 That's freakin awesome man. 🔥🔥 Any other unusual things?

[@Chelz12]

Yeah I made all of those entrances for KZbin guys to comment about it.

[@jeffhenry7749]

I loved the stardust and stayed there all the time till they imploded it.. Very interesting place.

[@hobokendago]

lots of good footage

[@JAY-ph3vc]

love your thumbnail

[@327Erich]

Just a slight correction: Moe Dalitz, Sam Tucker, and Morris Kleinman (among others) were part of "The MayFIELD Road Mob," in Cleveland, not the " Mayfair Road Gang." Mayfield Rd. is the main street running through Little Italy on Cleveland's East side.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 NO MATTER WHAT U CALL IT . ITS SOUNDS LIKE A KIDS TEA PARTY.

[@Mewithabeard]

Take a shot everytime there's a new segment 😂 (for real tho, awesome documentary)

[@thebossofallbosses4945]

THE VERY BEST ORGANIZED CRIME VAULT IN OUR PLAYLIST!

[@denniscassley9992]

"CHARLIE M...!!!!"

[@AndyinMTL]

lol

[@bofinney5093]

Dennis Cassley you let me pop your fucking eye outta your head to protect that piece of shit!?

[@RochesterNY607]

Adam Markman he better give me a name soon or I'm going to give him yours I know you would have ratted by now Frankie

[@BrettMcNary]

haha fuckin Charlie M

[@denniscassley2569]

"Don't make me be a bad guy...c'mon!!"

[@f0rmaggi0]

This is a great find. Thanks for sharing!

[@russellseilhamer4552]

Really awesome documentary. I did see the movie Casino. This is some great and rare live footage of Rosenthal at the gaming control hearings and Harry Reid ugggh

[@Chelz12]

Man old school men were some real men. The talk, the smoke, the attire- larger lapel with large collars, the cars, the whole class. How did we end up with Justin beiber types everywhere I would never know.

[@areguapiri]

The LGBT agenda has made men soft and girly.

[@djdhekd]

Many Men forgot to wear condoms and let their wives become the Man of the house... That's how.

[@jamesstewart8377]

There’s always been these types they are just more prevalent now sadly..

[@eamonwright7488]

Sadly Rosenthal was a rat.

[@zroy9263]

The Obama Administration is responsible for these sissies and beta boys!

[@RequestToSpeak]

This might be the craziest thing I've ever watched on KZbin.

[@AveryThePegasus]

It is very interesting to learn more about the Mob in Vegas. Considering I am actually a 3rd cousin of Moe Dalitz! I still have family in Vegas as well.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 U SPEAK YIDDISH????

[@AveryThePegasus]

@paulyricca3881 No unfortunately I don't. My great great grandma Helen did though. Yiddish is currently a dying language which is so sad

[@sondrasmith-rr4mw]

I first went to Las Vegas in 1965 with my mom. She was a math teacher and they had a math conference for a week in Vegas, and he was able to outline so mactivities that I could do and the one I think that stuck with me the most. Will one was AA nature hike out in the desert or they were talking about all of the desert flora and Fama. But the highlight of it was being able to go up to the top-level of the mint, and you could look down through the magnifying glass and actually sit there and watch the tables and see how they turned and it was just fascinating. You know, I was 12 years old. It was fascinating to me. After mom passed I don't think I've ever been back.I think we've stayed in the flamingo if I remember right but it was a good experience for a kid

[@Tres_Nueve]

01:12:23 Carl Thomas is who Nance is partly based on in the Casino movie. And in the book Thomas is described as the greatest Casino Skimmer in history at the time.

[@IceManLikeGervin]

Great upload!