Tamiroff comes up with the idea of knocking off five Vegas casinos-the Sahara, the Flamingo, The Riviera, The Sands, and the Desert Inn-on New Year's Eve. Sinatra, Davis, and Martin performed their club acts at night and worked on this Las Vegas-set film during the day, and the good time they were having fairly jumps off the A free-wheeling, uninhibited all-star romp, OCEAN'S ELEVEN set the pace for the 'caper' films of the 1960s and 1970s.