In heist movies especially Ocean's 11 all the names they need to the heist and other things, were these real things back in the day or just made up for a Trope?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

I can go more in depth if needed.

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