:05:11
Who could resist?
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Anywhere else in the country
I was a bookie, a gambler...
:05:16
always lookin' over my shoulder,
hassled by cops, day and night.
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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.
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And along with making us legit...
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comes cash, tons of it.
:05:59
I mean, what do you think we're doing
out here in the middle of the desert?
:06:02
It's all this money.
:06:05
This is the end result
of all the bright lights...
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and the comp trips,
of all the champagne...
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and free hotel suites,
and all the broads and all the booze.
:06:15
It's all been arranged
just for us to get your money.
:06:20
That's the truth about Las Vegas.
:06:25
We're the only winners.
:06:27
The players don't stand a chance.
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And their cash flows
from the tables...
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to our boxes
through the cage...
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and into the most sacred room
in the casino.
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The place where they add up
all the money...
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the holy of holies,
the count room.
:06:45
- Now, this place was off-limits.
- Verify 3,000.
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Even I couldn't get inside.
:06:50
But it was my job to keep it filled
with cash. That's for sure.
:06:52
They had so much
fuckin' money in there...
:06:54
you could build a house out
of stacks of hundred-dollar bills.
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And the best part
was that upstairs...
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- the board of directors didn't
know what the fuck was going on. - Five thousand.