The British Film Institute is bringing back to UK cinemas French director Claude Sautet's crime drama
Classe Tous Risques a.k.a
The Big Risk (1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, and Marcel Dalio. The film will open in select cinemas on September 13th.
Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this early 1960s French Italian crime drama adapted from the novel by José Giovanni. Abel Davos (Ventura), a gangster wanted for murder, has been hiding out in Italy for the last decade. After getting married and having children he feels ready to return to his native France but making it back home proves difficult. He ends up getting separated from his wife and finds himself on the run from the police with his two sons. After calling in a favour, however, he is assisted by fellow gangster Eric Stark (Belmondo) who tries to help them complete their journey without getting caught.
Note: In the United States,
Classe Tous Risques is currently available on DVD, courtesy of The Criterion Collection. See our listing of this release
here.