CLASSE TOUS RISQUES: a French gangster flick about a man on the run with his two young children. The script is very competantly worked, very tautly strung, hardly a moment wasted. Lino Ventura plays the protagonist, intensely aware of the noose inexorably tightening around him. Jean Paul Belmondo is awesome as Stark, the only friend our hero has. Decent camera work, score more often silent than not. But the real winner is the script and the strong performances. One can see echoes of the performances in much later works from Miller's Crossing to Last Man Standing.
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