The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Dual Format release of director Claude Sautet's crime drama
Classe Tous Risques a.k.a
The Big Risk (1960), starring Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Marcel Dalio. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the country on February 24th.
French gangland boss Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) has been on the run in Italy for a decade in order to escape a death sentence. But when police finally close in, he turns to his old criminal friends to help him and his young family return to Paris. With loyalty in short supply, it takes an insouciant stranger (coolly played by Jean Paul Belmondo in the same year as his breakthrough performance in A Bout de souffle), to come to the rescue.
The directorial debut of the influential Claude Sautet (
Un Coeur en hiver, Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud), and based on the novel by death-row-inmate-turned-writer José Giovanni (
Le Trou, Le Deuxième souffle),
Classe tous risques features a stand-out performance from Ventura as a bad man trying to do right by his children.
Special Features:
- Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
- Brand new restoration
- Monsieur Ventura (Doug Headline, 1996/2014): documentary on the life and career of Lino Ventura
- Original French and US trailers
- Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essay by the Guardian's John Patterson