Classe tous risques

Classe tous risques
Directed by Claude Sautet
Produced by Robert Amon
Jean Darvey
Written by José Giovanni (novel)
Claude Sautet
Pasqual Jardin
Starring Lino Ventura
Sandra Milo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Ghislain Cloquet
Editing by Albert Jurgenson
Distributed by Cinédis
Release date(s) 1960
Running time 104 min
Country France
Language French

Classe tous risques (Consider All Risks, first released in the U.S. as The Big Risk) is a 1960 French Italian International co-production black-and-white gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Milo, which wasn't in high esteem at the time of its release, overshadowed by the French New Wave, but nevertheless greatly influenced the French cinema, especially Jean-Pierre Melville's work. However, in Finland the film was banned from 1961 to 1968. It is an adaptation of a novel by José Giovanni, telling the story of Abel Davos (Ventura), French mobster trying to make his way from Italy through Marseille to Paris and hunted by the police, and Eric Stark (Belmondo), who turns out to be the only person willing to help Davos.

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