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
