At Last You Can See It — the Greatest Entertainment this City Has Ever Known! (October, 1943)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Paramount Pictures / EP: Buddy G. DeSylva / P: Sam Wood / D: Sam Wood / W: Dudley Nichols, Louis Bromfield, Jeanie Macpherson, Ernest Hemingway (novel) / C: Ray Rennahan / E: John F. Link Sr., Sherman Todd / M: Victor Young / S: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arturo de Córdova

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The Price of Uncovering the Secret of this Film Comes High — Your Life! (July, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 
The Satan Bug (1965) The Mirisch Corporation :: United Artists / P: John Sturges / D: John Sturges / W: James Clavell, Edward Anhalt, Alistair MacLean (novel) / C: Robert Surtees / E: Ferris Webster / M: Jerry Goldsmith / S: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Edward Asner, Simon Oakland, John Anderson

Topkapi (1964) Filmways Pictures :: United Artists / P: Jules Dassin / AP: Roger Dwyre, Lee Katz / D: Jules Dassin / W: Monja Danischewsky, Eric Ambler (novel) / C: Henri Alekan / E: Roger Dwyre / M: Manos Hatzidakis / S: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff

The Night They Blew All the Lights in Las Vegas! (November, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
When Peter Lawford first approached Frank Sinatra about making Ocean’s 11, as the legend goes, Sinatra told him they should forget about the movie and just pull the heist off instead. Made at perhaps the absolute zenith of the Martini Machismo era they helped to create and define, the film had to be shot piecemeal around the collection of stars’ scheduled live performances — most notably Sinatra’s legendary run at The Sands, where his fellow Rat-Packers often joined him for what would eventually come to be known as The Summit. And in perhaps the ultimate meta-moment in screen history, as the film ends, Ocean’s crew moseys reflectively down a sidewalk with The Sands marquee visible behind them, emblazoned with its headlining act.
 

 
Ocean’s 11 (1960) Dorchester :: Warner Bros. / P: Lewis Milestone / AP: Henry W. Sanicola / D: Lewis Milestone / W: Harry Brown, Charles Lederer, George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell / C: William H. Daniels / E: Philip W. Anderson / M: Nelson Riddle / S: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Silva, Caesar Romero