Rating: NR
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 03/23/1960(France),
Release Date: 06/17/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this
drama from French filmmaker
Claude Sautet. Gangster
Abel Davos (
Lino Ventura) is wanted for murder in France, and has been living underground in Italy for ten years. Since then,
Abel has married
Therese (
Simone France) and fathered two sons, and he's decided it's time to come home.
Abel has planed an elaborate scheme in which he'll steal a fortune to finance his journey and head home with
Therese and the boys, but little goes as planned, and he arrives in Paris without his wife and running from the law with two kids in tow. An underworld boss who owes
Abel some favors helps him put together a plan to travel across France in an ambulance to avoid suspicion, and recruits a headstrong young gangster,
Eric (
Jean-Paul Belmondo), to serve as
Abel's driver and right-hand-man. En route,
Abel tries to settle some old score with criminal associates who betrayed him. Based on a novel by
Jose Giovanni,
Classe Tous Risques was the first feature film from
Sautet, who previously had worked as an assistant director for some of France's most prestigious filmmakers.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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