Casino Heist Movie

Among the many established or iconic locales famous for gambling, the Las Vegas Strip has been a very popular cinematic setting over the years. From films like Warren Beatty’s Bugsy (1991), the Joe Pesci/Robert De Niro classic Casino (1995), hell even Chevy Chase’s Vegas Vacation (1997), there’s something undeniably cool and edgy about “The Strip” (except maybe that National Lampoon one). Yet in the city of sin, or wherever you try and find Lady Luck, when you pony up to the tables sometimes you’re putting more than just some colorful chips on the line. Unfortunately, as one Danny Ocean astutely comments, the underlying rule is that “the house always wins“, but it’s not always the case as a few films have shown us.

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So whether you’ve lost a few bucks (or more) to the dealers or one-arm bandits, and in anticipation of the magician heist film Now You See Me hitting theaters next year, here’s a few films that attempt to redress the balance in favor of the little guy…although results, highly fictitious and dangerous though they may be, will vary. Behold, our latest Quick 5 – Go,See,Talk’s Favorite Casino Heist Films.

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Ocean’s 11 – The quintessential “how-to” of casino heist movies in terms of budget, A-List star power, box-office takings and sheer irresistible suavity, has to be 2001’s Ocean’s 11. Riffing on the classic “one last job” yarn, Danny Ocean (Clooney), assembles, with the help of trusted friend Rusty, (Pitt), a gang of eleven eclectics to help him take down not one, not two, but three casinos, in the same night. Everyone is gorgeous, every wit is sharp, the casinos are places of fascinating elegance, and even the bad guys are good guys at heart. The heist itself is both impressively simple and fiendishly complicated, and it’s possible to credit Ocean’s 11 for sparking a mini Vegas renaissance, as a faintly magical, cocktail-drenched place, where you and your friends could come to gaze into the swirling fountains outside the Bellagio, and dream of pulling off the big one.

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21 – Before you begin to put up hands and tell us that this really isn’t a heist movie, this entry allows for a little latitude…and actually it is heist film; an intellectual one. After all, any time the house doesn’t win it’s like you’re robbing the casino wouldn’t ya say? Their game of choice isn’t Roulette or Craps, it is, as the title implies, 21. These ivy leaguers got very good at counting cards, under the tutelage of MIT Professor Kevin Spacey, and this gang of statistical whizzkids descended on the blackjack tables of Las Vegas, to prove the old adage incorrect, that the house always wins. All it takes is simple math equation to give the players the win. Based on a true story, it’s a fascinating portrayal of how greed corrupts, and the buzz of winning big in Sin City.

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3000 Miles to Graceland – In 3000 Miles to Graceland, there’s no such subtlety; dressed as Elvis-impersonators, Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell simply burst in, all guns blazing, and hope for the best, which, unsurprisingly, they don’t get. The concept of a bunch of criminals dressed up like Elvis and wrecking havoc on Las Vegas, but that’s not really what this movie is about. In fact, most of the Elvis gangsters are killed off at the beginning of the film, leaving only Costner and Russell behind to duke it out for the loot, at which point the film seems to lose its focus. With no moral compass to follow, the motivations behind the character’s actions remain a mystery, and as a result 3000 Miles to Graceland becomes a movie about a bunch of morally bankrupt people the audience just can’t care about.

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Rain Man – In Rain Man, counting cards is once again the ticket to instant wealth. Again, not a wham bam heist film but a sly way of beating the house. Tom Cruise’s unscrupulous and selfish, Charlie Babbitt, takes his autistic genius brother, Raymond, to count cards at the Vegas blackjack tables until the casinos are begging for mercy. Unlike other heist film, this one successfully creates an emotional connection with the audience, making Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond Babbitt, one of the most iconic characters of the eighties, and perhaps one of the most memorable and complex characters ever created. More than a heist thriller, Rain Man becomes a road drama about family, love and finding ones way in the world. The film opened to box office success and won four Oscars at the 61st Academy awards including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor in a leading role for Hoffman, making it the most successful heist film from both a critical and popular standpoint.

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Seven Thieves – Released just before the original Ocean’s Eleven (and taking place in Monte Carlo as opposed to Vegas) this black and white nod to the noir style, Seven Thieves stars Edward G. Robinson, as Theo Wilkins, an expatriate American professor, and Rod Steiger as his young protégé, Paul Mason. Joan Collins rounds out the team of thieves, playing Melanie, an exotic dancer and later Steiger’s love interest. The attraction between Melanie and Mason proves genuine and as a result the two emerge as the only true winners in the end, proving that sometimes love really does conquer all, at least that’s what Hollywood would like the audience to believe.

Seven Thieves is a 1960 American film noirheistcrime drama film shot in CinemaScope. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins and Eli Wallach.

Directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Sydney Boehm, it was adapted for the screen by Sydney Boehm, based on the 1959 novelThe Lions At The Kill by Max Catto.^[2] Technical advisor was Candy Barr, who, as choreographer, taught dance routines to Collins.

Seven Thieves received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design Black-and-White (Bill Thomas).

Synopsis[edit]

A discredited expatriate American professor, Theo Wilkins (Edward G. Robinson), has called on a young protégé and sophisticated thief, Paul Mason (Rod Steiger), to come over from the US to the south of France and help him pull off one final heist. He has masterminded a caper to steal $4,000,000 in French francs from the underground vault of the casino of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Wilkins has recruited a team of thieves – including Melanie (Joan Collins), an exotic dancer – but he needs someone he can trust, Mason, to keep them all in line during the crime.

The heist takes place on the night of a grand celebration at the casino. Melanie's protector, the saxophone player Pancho (Eli Wallach), and Wilkins enter the casino in the guises of (respectively) 'Baron von Roelitz,' an aristocrat with a disability who uses a wheelchair, and his physician, 'Dr. Vidal.' At the same time, Melanie, the safecracker Louis (Michael Dante) and Mason attend the party with invitations procured by the gang's inside man at the casino, the meek assistant to the director, Le May (Alexander Scourby), who is under Melanie's spell.

Mason and Louis go out of a window, which Melanie shuts behind them, and make their way along a narrow ledge high above the sea to the casino director's office. From there, they descend by elevator to the vault four floors below. They cut through a barred gate in front of the vault and drill through the lock, secure the cash and make their way back to the director's elevator.

Pancho's part of the plan is to ingest a cyanide capsule to simulate a heart attack. Afraid, he fails to do so, necessitating that Wilkins inject him with cyanide instead. Pancho collapses and Wilkins maneuvers the casino director (Sebastian Cabot), in the name of 'discretion,' into transporting 'the baron' to his office. Here, Wilkins pretends to phone for an ambulance, and informs the director that the baron is dead. They leave the office with the inert baron in it.

Immediately re-entering the director's office, Louis and Mason stash the money in the hollow seat of the baron's wheelchair. They then return along the ledge to the window into the casino, which Melanie has reopened for them, narrowly avoiding being caught by casino security. Louis and Melanie depart the party together, while Mason makes his way out separately.

The 'ambulance' summoned by Wilkins is in reality part of the plan, and is driven by the last accomplice, Fritz (Berry Kroeger). Pancho is strapped into the wheelchair, taken to the side entrance of the casino and loaded into the ambulance. The conspirators then make their getaway. Just as Pancho is regaining consciousness in the back of the ambulance, Wilkins, smiling in the excitement of his success, peacefully and unexpectedly dies. Mason and Melanie drive him back to his hotel. While driving back to the hideout, Mason breaks down and Melanie realizes that Wilkins was his father.

Mason and Melanie decide they want no part of the stolen money. They return to the hideout, where the others are squabbling over how to split the take. Mason examines the money and discovers that it is brand new currency and that all the serial numbers are on file with the Bank of France, which will make it next to impossible to spend. Mason and Melanie, realizing that the others will be unable to resist spending the cash, will be caught and will implicate them, forcibly take the cash away and return it to the casino. Ironically, while returning the money they hit it big on the roulette table. Thus the two of them, who by now have decided to take their chances in life together, emerge as the only members of the gang to come out ahead.

Cast[edit]

• Edward G. Robinson – Professor Theo Wilkins
• Rod Steiger – Paul Mason
• Joan Collins – Melanie
• Eli Wallach – Pancho
• Alexander Scourby – Raymond Le May
• Michael Dante – Louis Antonizzi
• Berry Kroeger – Hugo Baumer aka Fritz
• Sebastian Cabot – Director of Casino

References[edit]

1. ^Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN978-0-8108-4244-1. p252
2. ^http://wn.com/Max_Catto

External links[edit]

Casino Heist Movie

• Seven Thieves at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Seven Thieves on IMDb
• Seven Thieves at AllMovie
• Seven Thieves at the TCM Movie Database

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