![]() ![]() Nicky seems to stay conscious the longest. Once both brothers are beaten halfway to heaven, they get buried alive so the dirt in their lungs can finish the job. ![]() Then the bosses force him to watch as they take the same bat to his brother, Dominick, over and over. ![]() He and his brother head out to a remote cornfield under the pretense of a routine meeting, only for Nicky to take a metal bat to the spine and knee when he's looking the other way. When Nicky causes one too many problems for the bosses to clean up, they whack him in the worst way imaginable. The film presents its own fictional version of how this might have happened. According to investigators, he died after suffering multiple blunt-force blows to the head and neck and was hidden in the field shortly after. Nicky Santoro of director Martin Scorsese's Casino was apparently based on real-life gangster Anthony Spilotro, whose body (along with his brother's) was found covered up in a shallow grave in an Indiana cornfield in 1986. ![]()
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