Danny invites Bea to go with him to Rio on January second, raising her suspicions that he is involved in another questionable activity.

Harmon is also concerned about Danny, whose estranged wife Beatrice left him for a more stable life, feeling that their marriage was a 'floating crap game.' Knowing they are both still in love, Harmon brings them together to talk. Frustrated, Acebos calls him a traitor, but when Danny offers to let Harmon back out, Harmon realizes that he cannot talk his friends out of the plan and joins them out of loyalty. However, Danny's best friend, Sam Harmon, a lounge singer who knows the city intimately and is aware of the level of security there, points out that they are not as athletic as they once were.

Former race car driver 'Curly' Steffans, prizefighter 'Mushy' O'Connors, rodeo cowboy Louis Jackson, Peter Rheimer, Roger Corneal and Josh Howard, a former baseball player who lost an eye in the war and now works as a garbage collector, all agree to 'liberate millions' from the casino vaults. After his doctor informs him that he has a fatal heart condition, however, he agrees to the mission in order to leave a financial legacy for his child. Having assisted a jeweler in an insurance fraud scheme and become the victim of a complicated frame-up, Tony, who has a young son, is at first unwilling to risk further imprisonment.

Key to the operation is the unit's luckless electrician, Anthony Bergdorf, who was recently released after serving time in San Quentin. Restes, while Vincent Massler wants enough money so that his wife can quit her job as a stripper. After searching Phoenix, San Francisco and other cities where the men have scattered, Danny reunites his ten colleagues at Acebos' home to outline his plan, which is to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos: the Sands, Flamingo, Sahara, Riviera and Desert Inn-on New Year's Eve at midnight.Įach man has his own reason for agreeing to the risky mission: for instance, playboy Jimmy wants to break his financial dependence on his wealthy, socialite mother, Mrs. However, they are avoiding Acebos' calls until they locate their former comrades and convince them to participate. Danny and a fellow paratrooper, Jimmy Foster, have worked out a detailed plan for putting Acebos' idea into action that requires carefully timed, military precision. Acebos hopes that Danny will reassemble his highly trained commando unit to participate in a heist that will make them millionaires.

In Beverly Hills, around Christmastime, excitable racketeer Spyros Acebos is waiting to hear from former sergeant Danny Ocean, who led the heroic 82nd Airborne unit of paratroopers during World War II.

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