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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515030526
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 8677
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
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Product Description:
Though sentenced to death in France in absentia former gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children after hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo in his first film after Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that's equal parts throat-grabbing and soul-searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutes Language: French Subtitles: EnglishFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: NR UPC: 715515030526 Manufacturer No: CC1758DDVD
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Claude Sautet's neo-realist Classe Tous Risques (loosely translated as 'all-risk insurance') deserves the kind of acclaim accorded classic American noirs, like They Live by Night. As with Nicholas Ray before him, the Frenchman behind the exquisitely restrained chamber pieces Un Coeur en Hiver and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud combines genre tropes with tenderness. It's a tricky balance, and far too many filmmakers succumb to pathos when making the attempt. Milan-based gangster Abel Davos (former wrestler Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows) won't hesitate to plug a foe, but dotes on his two sons, wife Therese (Simone France), and partner Raymond (Stan Krol). When a robbery goes bad, however, several of those nearest and dearest to Davos lose their lives. In swoops ex-boxer Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, just off Breathless) who helps him escape to Paris--by ambulance. Damsel-in-distress Liliane (8 1/2's Sandra Milo) joins the duo on their dangerous journey. Round Midnight's Bertrand Tavernier describes the matter-of-fact ending as 'abrupt, unsentimental, and poignant.' Written by ex-con José Giovanni (Le Trou) and shot by Ghislain Cloquet (Mouchette), Sautet's first feature, after assisting Georges Franju and Jacques Becker, got lost amidst the French New Wave. It may not surpass Melville for cool, but rivals him in the hood-with-heart department (and Melville greatly admired the film). Supplements include the French and US trailers, interviews with Giovanni and Tavernier from the 2000 documentary Claude Sautet ou la Magie Invisible, and comments from Ventura, circa 1959-1987 about the movie and his career. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - 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!
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - A French Gangster Film Upstaged in 1960 by Godard's Breathless.
Perhaps best known for his superb 1991 film, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Claude Sautet's earlier, crisp black-and-white, 60s gangster film, Classe tous risques (Consider All Risks), stars Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo (two icons of French cinema), and Sandra Milo. Banned from 1961 to 1968, and based on a novel by José Giovanni, the film has a Jean-Pierre Melville-Bob le Flambeur influence. After pulling off a daring payroll heist on the streets of Milan (where he has been hiding ... Read More
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