If it's not the greatest opening sequence of all time, it has to be close. The music almost sounds sci fi. I'm pretty sure that's the great Joe Walsh on guitar. Hollywood put so much creative effort into movies in the '70s, no matter the genre.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
