Random Ephemera: Doctor’s Estate Mysteriously Willed to Secretary.Cheap and Easy Dreams: Spadrom Estates and Herbert Heftler.

7430 Pyramid Pl., Los Angeles: Crooners and Rapists.

Matte Shot – a tribute to Golden Era special fx.

PanAm Yankee Clipper Cutaway Drawing, ca 1930s.

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Movie sets, trainers, simulators, fake cities, etc. Scott Fitzgerald’s Death at Age 44 CategoriesĬutaway and cross-section drawings of vehicles, weapons, submarines, airplanes, buildings, and more. Flamingo Bar Flamingo Hotel and Casino Bar from Ocean’s 11 (1960) Sands Cashier/Guard Stand Sands Cashier/Guard Stand from Oceans 11 (1960) Sands Hotel and Casino Phone Area Sands Hotel and Casino Phone Area from Oceans 11 (1960) Sands Hotel and Casino Coffee Shop Sands Hotel and Casino Coffee Shop from Oceans 11 (1960) Sahara Casino Nightclub Sahara Casino Nightclub from Oceans 11 (1960) Flamingo Hotel and Casino Entrance Flamingo Hotel and Casino Entrance from Oceans 11 (1960) This slavish progression through the five hotels not once, but twice (first casing the joints, then later on, robbing them) is a huge drag on the movie’s storyline, but it’s a great crosscut of 1960s Las Vegas. Yet the movie has a great look, as the boys progress from casino to casino: Flamingo, Sands, Desert Inn, Riviera, and Sahara.

The only real spark of life is with Cesar Romero, as Peter Lawford’s father-in-law-to-be, an unspecified Las Vegas fixer-gangster who wises up to the boys’ heist and exposes it. Even one hour into the movie, they have only talked about the heist. Interminable parts of the movie happen at Spyros Acebo’s Ladera Drive house in Beverly Hills, where the boys just talk and talk forever. It has no real highs, no lows, no drama, little humor. How bad can a movie be yet look fantastic? Ocean’s 11 (1960) is a heist film famous for its slick Rat Pack, mid-century modern trappings, but altogether a heaping, floppy mess.

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