Claude Sautet's tough, desolate Euro-noir thriller, based on French-Swiss crime writer Jose Giovanni's bleak novel about dishonor among thieves, opened in the wake of New Wave bombshell BREATHLESS (1959) — which also featured Jean-Paul Belmondo and imbued American crime-movie conventions with a distinctly European sensibility — and then faded into undeserved obscurity. Condemned to death in absentia, aging French gangster Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) has been on the run for years, living in Italy with his wife, Therese (Simone France, Giovanni's sister), and their small children, Pierrot and Daniel (Robert Desnoux, Thierry Lavoye). But he wants to go home and ...
Released:
1960
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins