Classe Tous Risques

Classe Tous Risques (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Classe tous risques
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1960 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Claude Sautet

Written By:
José Giovanni
Claude Sautet

Actors:
Lino Ventura ..... Abel Davos
Sandra Milo ..... Liliane
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Eric Stark
Marcel Dalio ..... Arthur Gibelin
Michel Ardan ..... Riton Vintran
Simone France ..... Thérèse Davos
Michèle Méritz ..... Sophie Fargier
Stan Krol ..... Raymond
Evelyne Ker ..... La fille de Gibelin
Betty Schneider ..... La petite bonne
France Asselin ..... Madame Vintran
Jean-Pierre Zola ..... Le patron de l'agence privée
Sylvain Levignac ..... Le détective de l'agence privée
Jeanne Pérez ..... Jacqueline Chapuis
René Génin ..... Chapuis

Synopsis:

Highly rated by Jean-Pierre Melville, Robert Bresson and Bertrand Tavernier, and described as the greatest of all French gangster movies by the Guardian, Classe tous risques is an astonishing crime film that was the dazzling directorial debut of the influential Claude Sautet (1924-2000), better known for his later films Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995). Starring the great Italian-born character actor Lino Ventura as a once-powerful Parisian gangster who has grown weary of his exile in Italy and longs to return home to his wife and two small children in Paris. In order to finance this ambition he decides to pull one last job - boldly executed in broad daylight on the streets of Milan. His getaway proves dangerous but when he enlists the help of his old partners-in-crime, they are reluctant to risk their own safety and instead send a complete stranger - the fresh-faced Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo) - to escort their former comrade to Paris.

Abel Davis is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die. Abel arrives in Nice with the boys, calls his pals in Paris, and gets the brush-off. Reluctantly, they send a stranger, Eric Stark, to bring Abel to Paris, but he's getting the message he's on his own. Honor, friendship, and debt now count for little. What can Abel, a wanted man with two small children and only Stark as a friend, do? "Never give ground," he tells Eric, but how long can he hold to his code?

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 May, 2014.

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