He learns of Ocean being in town and his connection to Foster, who is the son of Duke's fiancee. Reformed gangster Duke Santos (Romero) offers to recover the casino bosses' money for a price. This raises the suspicions of police, who wonder if there is any connection. Their ace electrician, Tony Bergdorf (Conte), has a heart attack in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip and drops dead.

It appears to have gone off without a hitch. A garbage truck driven by Josh picks up the bags and passes through the police blockade. As soon as the lights come back on, the thieves stroll out of the casinos. They dump the bags of loot into hotel's garbage bins, go back inside and mingle with the crowds. The inside men sneak into the cashier cages and collect the money.

The backup electrical systems open the cashier cages instead of powering the emergency lights. At exactly midnight, while everyone in every Vegas casino is singing 'Auld Lang Syne' the tower is blown up and Vegas goes dark. Demolition charges are planted on an electrical transmission tower and the backup electrical systems are covertly rewired in each casino. Sam Harmon (Martin) entertains in one of the hotel's lounges. Josh Howard (Davis) takes a job driving a garbage truck while others work to scope out the various casinos. The gang plans the elaborate New Year's Eve heist with the precision of a military operation. Instead, Luke and Owen chose to star in The Royal Tenenbaums.A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans are recruited by Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Lawford) to rob five different Las Vegas casinos (Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands, and The Flamingo) on a single night. Scott Caan and Casey Affleck give memorable performances in all three films as the bickering, thrill-seeking Turk and Virgil Malloy, but if Soderbergh’s original plan had come together, he would have had the Wilson brothers in those parts.

Luke and Owen Wilson were supposed to play the Malloy brothers In a 2001 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actor joked, “Everybody will say, you know, ‘Oh, that’s one of my favorite films,’ and I’ll always say, ‘Have you ever seen it?'” When asked about stepping into Frank Sinatra’s shoes to play smooth-talking con man Danny Ocean, Clooney has said that he thinks the 1960 film is only beloved because of its legendary cast. Here, five fun facts about the trilogy you may not have known. The casino heist adventure was such a hit that director Steven Soderbergh followed it with two sequels, building an entire universe of slick crooks and evil billionaires in the Mojave Desert.

The 2001 Ocean’s Eleven remake captures the Rat Pack spirit of the 1960 original, but with modern stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt gallivanting up and down the Las Vegas Strip.

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