Originally posted on 3.4.10: The Warner Bros. logo fanfare music that begins Lewis Milestone‘s Ocean’s 11 (1960) is the most enjoyable part of the film, hands down.

The second best part is Saul Bass‘s animated casino-attitude title sequence. Obviously old-school by today’s standards, but you can sense the smooth cocky mentality of late ’50s showbiz culture — the hold-the-clyde, chickie-baby attitude of Frank Sinatra and those those godawful orange sweaters he used to wear as he lounged around with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. The mob guys who used to run things in Las Vegas would cater to the Rat Pack’s every whim, and there were always accommodating broads to hand out back rubs and…uhm, whatever else.

HE never even came close to a whiff of this kind of life (way before my time), but I can imagine.

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