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The Big Risk
Directed by
Claude Sautet
Not Rated
1960
1h 50m
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7.5
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A ruthless criminal flees from the pursuit, involving more and more casualties.
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Cast of The Big Risk
Lino Ventura
Abel Davos
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Éric Stark
Sandra Milo
Liliane
Marcel Dalio
Arthur Gibelin
Michel Ardan
Henri Vintran, aka 'Riton'
Simone Desmaison
Thérèse Davos
Michèle Méritz
Sophie Fargier
Stan Krol
Raymond Naldi
Evelyne Ker
Gibelin's daughter
Betty Schneider
Little maid
France Asselin
Denise Vintran
Jean-Pierre Zola
Boss of the detective agency
Sylvain Lévignac
Agency detective
Jeanne Pérez
Jacqueline Chapuis
René Génin
Mr. Chapuis
Charles Blavette
Mr. Bénazet
Philippe March
Jean Martin
Corrado Guarducci
Ferucci
Robert Desnoux
Pierrot Davos
Thierry Lavoye
Daniel Davos
Claude Cerval
Raoul Fargier
Jacques Dacqmine
Commissioner Blot
Max Amyl
Stage manager (uncredited)
Marcel Bernier
Inspector (uncredited)
Jean Combal
Policeman of Nice (uncredited)
Albert Daumergue
Riton man (uncredited)
Lucien Desagneaux
Billiard player (uncredited)
Bernard Dhéran
Blastone (uncredited)
Marcel Gassouk
Man at the Nice police station (uncredited)
Guy Henry
Inspector (uncredited)
Laure Paillette
Elevator woman (uncredited)
The Big Risk Ratings & Reviews
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The rerelease of Classe Tous Risques makes you wonder how many other movies this good got scuttled by the French new wave.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A doozy of a French gangster pic that, in its beautifully refurbished and pithily resubtitled re-release, turns out to be one of the highlights of the 2005 movie year.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Even though the film isn't considered a rule-breaking classic, its straight face holds up quite nicely, thank you.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A crisp, smart, cynical film about dishonor among thieves.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Belmondo is the clincher: He's got so much jaunty charisma, the screen can barely contain him.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
Ranging and enjoyably unpredictable.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The late Claude Sautet was one of the best, and perhaps the most underappreciated, of the great French directors who came to prominence in the '50s and '60s.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Claude Sautet's Classe Tous Risques is the kind of French movie that makes you want to throw on your trench coat, light up a cigarette and shoot somebody.
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
The resulting thriller may not surpass [Jean-Pierre] Melville for cool, but rivals him in the hood-with-heart department.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
[T]he young Belmondo alone is worth the price of admission to Classe Tous Risques ...
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The new titles are flavorsome, and the restoration is up to Rialto's previous high standards -- shades of gray with the pale glow of an overcast autumn sky.
Stop Smiling
Michael Joshua Rowin
What we're left with 45 years after Classe's awkwardly timed entrance into French film history are some superbly assured performances and well-drawn characters.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A killer.
About.com
Jurgen Fauth
Touching and merciless at the same time.
San Diego Union-Tribune
David Elliott
French directors like Melville and Chabrol did more with the basically American forms and inspirations, but Sautet (a fairly major talent) had crack nerves and an alert, humane eye.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Romantic codes of honor collide with the unforgiving doom of the gangster thriller with a fascinating ambiguity... in Claude Sautet's lean, tough 1960 crime classic...
Los Angeles CityBeat
Andy Klein
...another eminently watchable example of the French noir trend of the period.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Sautet's shrugging ambiguity, already piquant, already piercing
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