:04:01
It should've been so sweet too.
:04:03
But it turned out to be the last time
that street guys like us...
:04:07
were ever given anything
that fuckin' valuable again.
:04:15
At that time, Vegas was a place
where millions of suckers...
:04:17
flew in every year
on their own nickel...
:04:19
and left behind
about a billion dollars.
:04:22
But at night, you couldn't see
the desert that surrounds Las Vegas.
:04:28
But it's in the desert where lots
of the town's problems are solved.
:04:31
Got a lot of holes
in the desert...
:04:34
and a lot of problems
are buried in those holes.
:04:37
Except you gotta do it right.
:04:39
I mean, you gotta have
the hole already dug...
:04:41
before you show up
with a package in the trunk.
:04:44
Otherwise, you're talking about
a half hour or 45 minutes of diggin'.
:04:47
And who knows who's gonna
be comin' along in that time?
:04:49
Before you know it,
you gotta dig a few more holes.
:04:52
You could be there
all fuckin' night.
:05:11
Who could resist?
:05:13
Anywhere else in the country
I was a bookie, a gambler...
:05:16
always lookin' over my shoulder,
hassled by cops, day and night.
:05:19
But here, I'm Mr. Rothstein.
:05:21
I'm not only legitimate,
but running a casino.
:05:24
And that's like selling people
dreams for cash.
:05:28
I hired an old casino pal,
Billy Sherbert, as my manager, and I went to work.
:05:32
...the casino manager. And this is
Ronnie, who takes care of the card room.
:05:38
For guys like me,
Las Vegas washes away your sins.
:05:41
It's like a morality car wash.
:05:43
It does for us what Lourdes
does for humpbacks and cripples.
:05:54
And along with making us legit...
:05:56
comes cash, tons of it.
:05:59
I mean, what do you think we're doing
out here in the middle of the desert?