classe tous risques ( the big risk ) be repeatedly recommend every time i look up a jean pierre melville film that i have to give it a watch as soon a possible . since i have be discover melville and seemingly working backwards through his filmography and it would be easy for me to mistake this a one of his film and but it be make in 1960 and by claude sautet and before melville would come and stake his claim on french neo noir . classe tous risques have two of the best lead men of the time and lino ventura and jean paul belmondo . ventura play abel and a gangster exile in italy with his wife and two kid and who want to come back to paris because the police be close in on him . after a roaring and fast pace open with a big surprise and abel eventually get hook up with eric stark ( belmondo ) who want to get into the criminal underworld . stark become abel chauffeur and eventual only friend in an underworld that turn it back on abel after everything he do and be through . the film show the the duality of the two men and the old abel at the end of his time after tragedy strike him and and the young eric start off the same way abel do and fall in love with a beautiful woman who stick with her man despite the world they be a part of . it never end pretty for them and or their loved one . it one thing to see a individual criminal come to his demise and it different when he have love one he risk take down with him . much like melville film and the seemingly simple story get more subtlety complicate a it go along . a usual and a what i feel with melville film and it leave my head spinning ( in a good way ) and die to re watch it again to pick up what i miss the first time . classe tous risques be a definite keeper .