The Big Risk

(1960)

★ 7 IMDb · 152 votes

Genres: Crime

Year: 1960

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: France, Italy

Director: Claude Sautet

Cast: Лино Вентура, Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Sandra Milo, Марсель Далио, Michel Ardan, Simone Desmaison, Michèle Méritz, Stan Krol, Evelyne Ker, Betty Schneider

Plot

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

Abel Davos is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die. Abel arrives in Nice with the boys, calls his pals in Paris, and gets the brush-off. Reluctantly, they send a stranger, Eric Stark, to bring Abel to Paris, but he's getting the message he's on his own. Honor, friendship, and debt now count for little. What can Abel, a wanted man with two small children and only Stark as a friend, do? "Never give ground," he tells Eric, but how long can he hold to his code?