Movie Spotlight: Ocean's Eleven (1960)

I finally sat down and watched the original Ocean's Eleven a week or so ago as part of my quest to see all of Frank Sinatra's movies. However even with my extreme Rat Pack bias I still did not think very highly of this movie. The Rat Pack themselves all do a fine job acting here, Dean and Frank especially, but the film is held back by it's plot and poor pacing. The movie is bookended by absurdly long sequences first introducing all the characters and then focused on Cesar Romero's character (yeah the Joker from the Adam West Batman show) hunting down the Ocean's gang. Maybe my opinion was soured having seen the modern remake first, and admittedly I have a hard time enjoying older films, but I expected more than the mess that I saw. Now I still got a kick out of the scenes featuring Frank and Dean, and Dean offers up a few songs throughout the pic that make it worth watching. If you are as a big fan of the Rat Pack as I am than I suggest watching this at some point, but don't expect it to be anything but a showcase for Frank, Dean, Sammy, and Peter hamming it up together. On a side note it's really interesting to see what the Las Vegas strip looked like back in the 60's compared to now. In the movie the strip is just a basic piece of highway, and the Sands casino is the size of an average Wal-mart. Fast forward to today and the strip is one giant acid trip and the Sands has been demolished, but not before being featured in another american movie classic: Con Air.

Also Frank what's up here?
"Holy s@#t that's a fuzzy sweater!"