The Big Risk (Classe tous risques)

The Big Risk (Classe tous risques) (1960)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (712 ratings)

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… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Mar 23, 1960 Wide
On DVD
Jun 17, 2008
Rialto Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    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.

  • John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

    The rerelease of Classe Tous Risques makes you wonder how many other movies this good got scuttled by the French new wave.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    Even though the film isn't considered a rule-breaking classic, its straight face holds up quite nicely, thank you.

  • Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

    To come across Classe Tous Risques is like discovering a bottle of marvelous French wine you didn't remember you had, opening it and finding it every bit as delicious as its reputation promised.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    A crisp, smart, cynical film about dishonor among thieves.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    another terrific french gangster film lost in the wake of the new wave, starring tough guy lino ventura as a career criminal who tries to return to france with his wife and children after 10 years away in italy. when things don't go according to plan, his old friends don't… More

  • danny d


    the film begins well, then heads towards one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful second acts ive ever seen on film, and the third act even continues in this leading me to want to give the film at least 4 1/2 stars until an incredibly anti-climatic and disappointing closeout of… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"Classe Tous Risques" starts out with a father dropping his wife and kids off at the Milan train station while on the way to work. The father is Abel Davos(Lino Ventura) who was sentenced to death in absentia in France. He and his partner pull off a… More

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