Editing Ocean's 11 (section)

==Plot==
[[World War II]] veterans Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster recruit nine comrades from their unit in the [[82nd Airborne Division]] to simultaneously rob five [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] [[casino]]s: the [[Sahara Las Vegas|Sahara]], the [[Riviera (hotel and casino)|Riviera]], the [[Desert Inn]], the [[Sands Hotel and Casino|Sands]], and the [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo]].

[[File:Ocean's Eleven1960.jpg|thumb|From left to right: Lester, Bishop, Davis, Sinatra, and Martin|alt=]]
The gang plans the elaborate New Year's Eve heist with the precision of a military operation. Josh Howard takes a job as a sanitation worker driving a garbage truck while others get jobs at the various casinos. Sam Harmon entertains in one of the hotel's lounges. Demolition charges are planted on a local [[electric power transmission]] tower and the backup electrical systems are covertly rewired in each casino to open the cashier cages when the automatic generator kicks in. At midnight on New Year's Eve, the tower is blown up and the [[Las Vegas Strip]] goes dark, as the men sneak into the money cages, hold up the cashiers, and dump their collection bags into the hotels' garbage bins. A garbage truck driven by Josh picks up the bags and passes through the police blockade. Everything appears to have gone off without a hitch.

The gang's electrician, Tony Bergdorf, drops dead of a heart attack in the middle of the Strip. This raises police suspicions, who wonder if there is any connection to the thefts. Reformed mobster Duke Santos offers to recover the casino bosses' money for a percentage. As the robbery was well organized, he assumes that it was a [[American Mafia|Mafia]] operation until his underworld connections deny any involvement. Duke is engaged to Foster's mother, who casually mentions that Foster and Ocean, having fought together in the army, are both unexpectedly in Las Vegas. Duke also learns about Bergdorf's military record from the police. By the time that Bergdorf's body arrives at the mortuary, Duke has pieced it all together.

Duke confronts the thieves, demanding half of their take. In desperation, they hide the money in Bergdorf's coffin, setting aside $10,000 for his widow. The group plans to take back the rest, making no payoff to Duke, after the coffin is shipped to San Francisco. Their plan backfires when the funeral director talks Bergdorf's widow into having the funeral in Las Vegas. She has the body and coffin [[cremation|cremated]] along with all of the hidden cash.