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'Classe Tous Risques' reveals a star in the making
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Rereleased with new subtitles and in a restored black-and-white print, "Classe Tous Risques" is a pungent gangster film with a prescient "The Sopranos" subtext. Like Tony, Abel Davos is a family man who occasionally kills people. A world-weary veteran of the criminal underworld in Paris, he's lived with his wife and two sons in Italy for the past decade. Now he wants to come home and settle down. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
On crowded streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist in broad daylightand then begin a lightning-paced getaway. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France — where he's been sentenced to death in absentia — after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money ... particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.

FILM FACTS ...

Rialto Pictures

'Classe Tous Risques'

Director: Claude Sautet
Starring: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Jacques Dacqmine
Run time: 103 minutes
Original release: 1960
Rating: Not rated but there are disturbing scenes of gangster violence.
Language: French with subtitles.

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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"... doesn't quite rate lost-classic status, but it's done with a great deal of dexterity, intelligence and an appealing end-of-'50s cool. What makes it especially worth seeking out is the chance to watch Belmondo become Belmondo."