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Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection
from Criterion
starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Queen Kong, Cheung Lung
directed by Claude Sautet

Features:

• Black & White
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Lino on the Lam
  Lino's brute menace is tempered with a paternalistic edge and an almost goofy Belmondo provides a neat counterbalance in this low-key but tough noir that looks great on this DVD. The whole picture is impressive ,but not altogether involving. There's more here to admire than really enjoy.

• a real masterpiece!
  I like this film so very much to consider it the best crime movie I have ever seen--a real masterpiece! Lino Ventura's performace is par excellence, with the supporting role smartly played by the young, handsome newcomer, Jean-Paul Belmondo; the rest of the cast--truly
  wonderful--thanks to the very talented director, Monsieur Sautet. Highly
  recommended!

• A wanted man returns home
  This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
  Classe tous risques, is a film based on a novel of the same name, about a gangster named Abel Davos, who returns home to France after hiding out in Italy.
  I was not very familiar with the film, and despite its obscurity, I found it to be quite good.
  The supplements are French and English theatrical trailers, an archival interview with actor, Lino Ventura, an interview with the novelist José Giovanni, and a... more info

• French gangsters minus trench-coats and the famous Code, but with the excellent Lino Ventura
  Classe Tous Risques (The Big Risk) is a French gangster movie that doesn't try for style. That's why it has style. Because the movie is so underplayed and so matter-of-fact, it becomes more and more involving. And because Abel Davos is played by Lino Ventura, we wind up emotionally invested in this taciturn, tough killer who loves his wife and kids, has an encounter with customs agents on the shore near Nice at night that neither he nor we expect, and who proves just as willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer... more info

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