That said, for the purposes of the review, I’ll just focus on the movie.
Normally, I would, but it was while watching Ocean’s 11 that I discovered it, too, was an adaptation.
The story was published the same year as the movie’s release, and appears that film and book were meant to complement each other. The work they chose was Ocean’s 11, based on the story by George Clayton Johnson, who also wrote Logan’s Run. Released in 1960, Ocean’s 11 featured Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who essentially decided to make a movie together for the fun of working together. With the original Ocean’s 11, it was a mix of the two. To play up the thieves, either the victim is engaged in a shady business or the target is a supposedly impossible to break into location. The core requirements for a heist are the thieves, the target, and the victim. The heist is a popular plot, from the lone hobbit sneaking into a dragon’s lair to a well-planned robbery with military precision.
