Classe tous risques
(DVD)

Based on the book by Jose? Giovanni.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: New, restored high-defiintion digital transfer; excerpts from "Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible:" a 2003 documentary on the director by N.T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin; interview with Classe tous risques novelist and screenwriter Jose? Giovanni; archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career; original French and U.S. theatrical trailers; booklet: features new essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville.

Cinematography, Ghislain Delerue ; editor, Albert Jurgenson ; music, Georges Delerue.

Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Claude Cerval, Jacques Dacqmine.

After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.

In French with optional English subtitles.