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Join us for the 65th anniversary of the heist film that started it all!

The original Rat Pack–Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop–star with Angie Dickinson in the original Ocean’s 11. Eleven pals prepare to carry out a–theoretically–foolproof plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The plan depends on split-second timing, and everything goes like clockwork … at first. But even in this almost perfect scheme, things begin to go wrong.

Image credit: Warner Bros. Classics

Did you know?

  • Sammy Davis Jr. required wooden blocks attached to the pedals on the garbage truck he drove in the film so that he could reach them.
  • Significant portions of the movie interactions between major characters were ad-libbed. The actors playing the leading roles all knew each other well and improvised dialogue as good as or better than the script.
  • Most filming was accomplished early in the morning, before sunrise, since most of the actors also had shows in Las Vegas that they performed nightly during the shooting.

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