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Lewis Milestone,
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: Not Rated
: Warner Home Video
: Capers
: 127 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick of needing his oft-married mother's money, especially now that she's about to wed Duke Santos (Cesar Romero), a self-made man with all sorts of underworld ties. After he receives the news that he could die at any time, newly released convict Anthony Bergdorf (Richard Conte) reluctantly agrees to participate so he can leave some money to his estranged wife and young son. Ocean's own wife, Beatrice (Angie Dickinson), doesn't think much of her husband's promise of a big score to come, but her quiet protests don't dissuade him. With Las Vegas garbage man and fellow vet Josh Howard (Sammy Davis Jr.) and several casino employees among their number, the titular band of thieves have just a few days to get ready for their caper. When Duke Santos, Jimmy's mother, and one of Ocean's discarded paramours all show up in Sin City at the same time as the veterans, the crew's perfect plans face some serious hurdles. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- Commentary by Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Angie Dickinson
- Interactive "Then and Now" Las Vegas Map Casino Vignettes
- Excerpt from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson featuring guest host Frank Sinatra and guest Angie Dickinson
- Cast/Filmmaker Profiles
- Theatrical Trailers
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| Enjoyable, fun to look at
by ironically
November 26, 2005 - 7:23 PM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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This is a movie you look at, rather than watch, with many of the sets having an elegant, modernist design. These seem to give a snapshot of the last hurrah of the contemporary look, before the 60's and 70's came along with their famously bad taste.
Especially enjoyable is the house of Spyros Acebos, where the guys gather together to plan their crime. Also worth a look are the hotel rooms occupied by Sinatra as he assembles his team, and the various location shots inside 1959 Las Vegas casinos. The meeting room where Duke Santos meets the casino owners is also a classic, as well as the Las Vegas funeral home with its creepy neon pendulum.
Beauty can be found in various details, like the furniture in the house and a little cloth they lay out on the pool table with the line of casinos, their logos perfectly reproduced. They evoke a time when such things were cool, much like the animated signs that became such a big part of the Vegas landscape. The repeated shots of those signs reminds one of a charming old vision of what was hip.
And of course, there are the classic lines, "Is it the big casino?" and "What's wrong with a little hey-hey?" The dialog that was once ultra-cool is now so corny, you have to wonder how silly some of today's movies will seem 40 years from now.
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| Lifeless "Ocean's" doesn't stand the test of time
by PotatoesBrowning
October 15, 2002 - 9:02 PM PDT
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3 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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| The lasting impression this film left me was just how terribly tacky everything was in 1960. All the trappings we are supposed to think were so cool come off as a big, cheap carnival display: the skinny cars with skinny wheels, skinny rear view mirrors and skinnier tail fins. Men wearing business suits with high water peg leg pants. The crap hair cuts. The rickety, matchstick furniture. People walking around with cocktails and cigarettes morning, noon and night. And worst of all, the--Holy Christ--color co-coordinated ballrooms! It made me queasy. I mean, my God, people thought this was GLAMOROUS? To watch this movie is to peer into a cultural abyss where all of the great fashion designers, hair stylists, graphic designers and architects of the century ceased contributing all at once and apparently died off. Only some of Dean Martin's one-liners have stood the test of time lo these forty-two years later. There is a certain class of people who insist on slavish devotion to The Rat Pack and whatever it was they stood for, regardless of how threadbare their humor. I just can't buy it. All I can say is, how grateful I am The Beatles came along and swept this nonsense from the face of the earth. The 2001 version of "Ocean's 11" absolutely crushed the 1960 original. Thank God I live in the digital age, and all hail George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Bernie Mac with their vicious cynicism, their scathing wit, and their expensive suits! |
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