Friday, August 10, 2018

Ocean's 11 (1960), 6

Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
2h 7min | Comedy, Crime, Music | 10 August 1960 | Color, WS
Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Akim Tamiroff.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054135/
Watched online, good print.

Penultimate film for director LM (b. 1895), has 43 director credits spanning 1919-62, including All Quiet on the Western Front ('30).

7 songs in the Soundtracks. I didn't notice the song performed by Louis Prima and Keely Smith, I'm Gonna Live Until I Die; I don't think they were onscreen.

Rated 8 on 2014-01-05. Today, if this didn't have the tag Music, I would not have made it through the halfway mark. And although I remembered the heist prep in that hour+ before the lights went out, I didn't remember the death or the ending. But as soon as I saw the coffin, I guessed the end.

So the first half of the film was tedious, including the 2 scenes with Angie Dickinson. The prep work and the heist were interesting, as was the ending. But I didn't like it today at all.

DM is a performer in one of the casinos, so he sings a couple of songs onstage. SD sings the title song to his coworkers, and to himself a couple more times.

Dorchester Prod., distr. Warner, dir. Milestone; 6