classe tous risques ( the big risk ) be a french gangster movie that doesn not try for style . that why it have style . because the movie be so underplayed and so matter of fact and it become more and more involve . and because abel davos be play by lino ventura and we wind up emotionally invest in this taciturn and tough killer who love his wife and kid and have an encounter with custom agent on the shore near nice at night that neither he nor we expect and and who prove just a willing to shoot a cop or a betrayer with as little emotion a flick off a bit of lint . we first meet davos in italy with his wife and their two small boy and one about 9 and one 4. this man be abel davos and sentence to death in absentia and be tell . on the run for year and he have watch his resource dwindle and even a his anxiety keep him on the move . with the italian police closing in each day and france be again his best bet . maybe he would be forgotten . davos be a top gangster in paris who take care of his friend . that be several year ago . a heist to give him money to return to france go very wrong . now he hide out with his two kid . he call his friend in paris to help him out . he and his kid need to get from nice to paris but the police be hunt him and they have set up roadblock . for davos two best friend and time have pass and they have move on . they do not want to put themselves at risk and and for what . obligation give may to caution . so they hire a young thief and eric stark ( jean paul belmondo ) and to pick up davos and the child in an ambulance and then to drive to paris with davos heavily bandage and the child hide . be on a journey where davos option be increasingly limited and where he must find way to have his child care for and where he realize there be no more tie of friendship and where betrayal seem likely and and where quite possibly his only friend leave be eric stark . this somewhat cynical movie work so well because it do it job without fuss about . there be no trench coat with pull up collar and no toy with the melodrama of the gangster code so many french director have love . classe tous risques give u abel davos and a man who once be somebody and who now be slide down to be nobody and and who react with violence and resignation . lino ventura dominate the movie and yet when he be pair with jean paul belmondo a curious chemistry happen . ventura a davos be grim and worried about care for his son . he be humiliate by his situation . he be a tough man who see kill someone and if need and a just part of the business he in . belmondo a the young thief who initially be send to be an expendable driver and wind up be a friend to count on and provide the brightness that keep the movie from be just one more ride down the elevator . belmondo be 27 and look young . his unlikely star power a a lead actor break nose and under slung jaw shine right off the screen . he make erik a match for ventura when they share a scene . and belmondo scene with liliane ( sandra milo ) and the young woman who become his girl friend and radiate charm and good natured sex appeal . the end be bittersweet fate and and without a stylistic posture in sight . we hear davos say and abel go . there nothing leave . it would be well worth watch classe tous risques to learn what he mean . there be many fine french gangster film . i would place this one right there with touchez pa au grisbi and bob le flambeur . to see one of lino ventura fine performance and watch army of shadow .