![]() ![]() Joyce Moore affectionately remembers that time. Today’s Las Vegas may attract more than 38 million visitors a year, but the Vegas of legend is in Ocean’s Eleven. Those were the days before the gambling halls were taken over by corporations and turned into palatial mega-resorts that could advertise themselves as family-vacation destinations with a straight face. ![]() “Sin City” is just a slogan on the postcards now, but in the Vegas of 1960, a freewheeling, devil-may-care atmosphere still reigned under the watchful eye of the mob. In retrospect, the critics were probably right - as Leonard Maltin observed, “Entire Rat Pack’s in it, but no one does much.” The passage of time, however, has transformed Ocean’s Eleven into an invaluable record of a time when Las Vegas really was America’s guilty pleasure. Critics were less than impressed, but the film ranked among the top 10 box office draws of the year. released Ocean’s Eleven, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford as retired members of an elite commando unit who have reunited to execute a daring casino heist in Las Vegas. How Las Vegas went from frontier town to America's playground.
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