Classe Tous Risques

Classe Tous Risques Consider All Risks is a 1960 FrenchItalian gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, JeanPaul Belmondo and Sandra Milo. It was first released in the United States as The Big Risk. It tells the story of Abel Davos Ventura, a French mobster who tries to make his way from Italy through Marseille to Paris, hunted by the police, and Eric Stark Belmondo, who turns out to be the only person willing to help Davos. The film is an adaptation of the novel with the same title by Jos Giovanni.

The French gangster Abel Davos is on the run from the police. He has been tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He flees to Italy together with his wife Thrse and their two children. He performs a successful holdup in Milano with his accomplice Raymond, but chased by the police the two decide to return to France. Entering France on a seemingly deserted beach, the small group is surprised by two customs officers and end up in a gunfight, where Thrse and Raymond are killed. Left alone with the children, Abel calls his friends Riton and Fargier in Paris to come and pick him up in Nice. Unable to travel to Nice, they send a man named ric Stark, who works as an ambulance driver. ric lets Abel hide in his attic and the two men become friends.The Abel Davos character is based on the real life Abel Danos alias le Mammouth because of his girth who Jos Giovanni met in prison. From 1941 to 1944 Danos was a henchman for the French Gestapo run by Henri Lafont and Pierre Bonny. Danos was sentenced to death and shot for Collaboration onMarch 1952. ........

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