Great Capers - (Movie Promo) January 2013

Italian Job, The (1969) - (Original Trailer)

Michael Caine blows the bloody doors off in the original heist thriller, The Italian Job (1969).

How To Steal a Million - (Original Trailer)

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole learn How to Steal a Million (1966) in William Wyler's heist comedy.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) - (Original Trailer)

The original movie and the ultimate "Rat Pack" adventure, Ocean's Eleven (1960) starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Asphalt Jungle, The - (Original Trailer)

A gang of small-time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist in The Asphalt Jungle (1950), directed by John Huston.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Learn To Carry Matches

Stick-up man Dix (Sterling Hayden), laying low after beating a legitimate arrest, greets anxious Doll (Jean Hagen), whom he doesn’t know well, except that the clip-joint where she worked got raided, early in John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, from the W.R. Burnett novel.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) So What Is This Act?

Doing recon for the big Las Vegas heist, pals Jimmy (Peter Lawford) and Sam (Dean Martin) take cover as Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) is confronted by the scorned Adele (Patrice Wymore, making her comeback, widow of the then-recently deceased Errol Flynn) in Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Have Plenty Of Trips

Critical scene as the Commissioner (John McIntire) confronts lawyer Emmerich (Louis Calhern) and girlfriend Angela (Marilyn Monroe) cracks under questioning in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

League Of Gentlemen, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) People Are Greedy

By way of introducing Richard Attenborough, as mechanic-type Lexy, at a shop in Queens’ Gate Place Mews, visited by his (uncredited) dad and a bird, confirmed as part of the scheme by the paperback in his drawer, in director Basil Dearden’s beloved caper The League Of Gentlemen, 1960.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Occupation, None

Opening shot in Cincinnati, (the ending was shot on the same production trip, in Kentucky) introducing Dix (Sterling Hayden), Gus (James Whitmore) at the diner, Barry Kelley the cop at the line-up (featuing Strother Martin), Frank Cady the witness, in John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Call Me Uncle Lon

Louis Calhern, as rich lawyer Alonzo Emmerich, is being asked by bookie Cobby (Marc Lawrence) and brainy ex-con Doc (Sam Jaffe) to bankroll a heist, showing interest then ushering them out, then visiting Angela (Marilyn Monroe), whose position we infer, in The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Will Even See Us

Jimmy (Peter Lawford) introduces Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) who introduces the plan for the Las Vegas multi-casino heist to the gang of ex-Army buddies (Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Richard Conte as "Tony," et al) in Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

Asphalt Jungle, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Dix

Opening title sequence from John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, sees thug Dix (Sterling Hayden) finding shelter in the diner run by pal Gus (James Whitmore) before the cops arrive.

League Of Gentlemen, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You're All Crooks

Upon assembly of the band, mastermind Hyde (Jack Hawkins) reveals the military and criminal backgrounds of Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes (also the screenwriter), Nigel Patrick, Kieron Moore and Terence Alexander, in The League Of Gentlemen, 1960, directed by Basil Dearden.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The One That's Bleeding

Awakened in the night in the Paris mansion of her highly successful art forger father, Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) catches Simon (Peter O'Toole, his first scene) in evening dress, early in William Wyler's How To Steal A Million, 1966.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Eee-O-11

Jerry Velasco is one of the uncredited accompanists for ex-ballplayer, WWII vet and garbage man Josh (Sammy Davis Jr.), knocking out specialty tune by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and visited by fellow vet Vince (Buddy Lester) about the heist their buddy Frank Sinatra is planning, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) No, I Don't Know How It Is

Freelance gangster and losing gambler Dix (Sterling Hayden) pays off nervous bookie Cobby (Marc Lawrence), who tries to apologize for insisting, then meets his newly-paroled heist partner Doc (Sam Jaffe), before crooked cop Ditrich (Barry Kelley) drops by, in The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Scoundrel

Opening with a Paris art auction, Hugh Griffith introduced as the seller, one Charles Bonnet, then news on the radio alerts Audrey Hepburn, whom will learn is his daughter, who then hurries home, in How To Steal A Million, 1966, directed by William Wyler, co-starring Peter O’Toole.

League Of Gentlemen, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You've Had Callers

During director Basil Dearden’s introductions of his troupe of complicated heroes, we meet Roger Livesey as, it seems, a London minister, receiving one of the packages from the ringleader (Jack Hawkins) and dealing with Marie Burke. his landlady, early in The League Of Gentlemen, 1960.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Forget The Whole Deal

Sam (Dean Martin) questions the wisdom of Danny's (Frank Sinatra) plan for the big Las Vegas heist for the WWII buddies, in Ocean's Eleven, 1960, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and the whole crew observing.

League Of Gentlemen, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) The Liquor's Genuine

Assembling in London's famous Cafe Royal after getting mysterious invitations promising profits, Bryan Forbes (who wrote the screenplay), Terence Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore and Norman Bird begin appraising each other, before Jack Hawkins begins to explain, Nigel Patrick arriving late, in the celebrated heist yarn The League Of Gentlemen, 1960.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) I Like To Have Rich Friends

In Las Vegas planning the big heist, Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) makes an offer to his estranged wife Bea (Angie Dickinson), who doesn't much want to hear it, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

How To Steal A Million (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Tiny Blue Beams

Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) worries that her father's fake statue, exhibited at a Paris museum, could be discovered, when she encounters Simon (Peter O'Toole), whom she caught burgling her house the night before, Fernand Gravey the museum director, in William Wyler's How To Steal A Million, 1966.

Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Left-Handed Form

Rich lawyer Emmerich (Louis Calhern) is questioned by two cops (Don Haggerty, James Seay) about a murder in which we know he was directly involved, then calls his mistress to arrange an alibi, and rejoins his invalid wife (Dorothy Tree) for a famous line, in The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Your Mother Hello

Among the best scenes carried by actors other-than Frank Sinatra (title character Danny Ocean), as WWII buddies Sam (Dean Martin) and Jimmy (Peter Lawford) catch up, the latter chatting with his mother (Ilka Chase), considering the heist, before the ringleader joins, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.