Not long after this movie was released, Vegas millionaire resident Howard Hughes bought it so he could control what movies aired on late night television.Tony Curtis, Jackie Gleason and Milton Berle were all originally offered cameo roles.The casinos hit in the heist are: The Hotel Flamingo, The Sands, The Desert Inn, The Riviera and The Sahara.One of two Shirley MacLaine films released in 1960 in which her final onscreen appearance plot-wise occurred on New Year's Eve (also The Apartment (1960)).This gathering of old friends necessitated Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. to patch up their differences with Frank Sinatra, both having fallen out with him several years before.At the time of filming, stage money, which did not look anything like the real thing, was still required, either because of the production code or legal technicalities which had not yet been disentangled. Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958, imagining William Holden in the lead.In the original story the Joey Bishop and Akim Tamiroff characters were really members of organized crime. Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. The five members of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford) are billed on the sign. The original Rat Pack--Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop--star with Angie Dickenson in the original Ocean's 11. The idea for the cremation ending came from director Lewis Milestone, who had recently attended the cremation funeral of a friend.Dave White, Frank Sinatra's stand-in for over 30 years, can be glimpsed in an uncredited cameo as the stagehand who gives Sinatra, Peter Lawford and Buddy Lester temporary refuge from their pursuers right after the burlesque club brawl.Longtime Sinatra bodyguard and fight trainer-to-the-stars, Al Silvani, makes an uncredited cameo as the manager of the burlesque nightclub where Buddy Lester works.Sinatra was not the first to hear about this film. But when Sinatra first heard the idea. This was the 60's, when Vegas was starting it's boom, and the strip was young. The thin plot is a set up for the "boys" to look sharp (and they sometimes do), sing songs (which they do well) and to show off 1960 Las Vegas (which by today's standards looks pretty shabby). Director: Lewis Milestone Writers: Harry Brown (screenplay), Charles Lederer (screenplay) Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. The throwing of the dish was ad-libbed, which accounts for the genuine look of surprise on Sinatra's face and the faces of his co-stars.Frank Sinatra identifies himself on the phone as "Detective Lieutenant Brannigan". That idea was eventually discarded.Richard Conte is the only member of "Ocean's 11" who dies in the film.According to Frank Sinatra Jr. on the DVD commentary, Sammy Davis Jr. was forced to stay at a "colored only" hotel during the filming because Las Vegas would not allow blacks to stay at the major hotels despite his appearing with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the others at the Sands Hotel.
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