His only crime drama, before MAX ET LES FERRAILEURS and also if you wish L'ARME A GAUCHE, that can be considered as a crime film, but not for me.... For the rest, Claude Sautet was more specialized in great dramas and characters studies. One the best, if not the best, in this kind of cinema. So, back to this one, it is the only film starring both Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura, in an incredible but moving story of a friendship, very unlikely, implausible at first sight, gripping. A gangster on the run tries to get help from his former associates and of course each of them declines...Only Jean-Paul Belmondo's character will do it...Inspired from actual events, involving a famous hoodlum who, during the war collaborated with the nazis, before resuming his criminal career as a bank robber, once peace came back in France in 1945. This movie shows hios last part of life, after 1946.
Review of Classe Tous Risques
