| Classe Tous Risques | |
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| Directed by | Claude Sautet |
| Written by | Claude Sautet José Giovanni Pascal Jardin |
| Based on | Classe tous risques by José Giovanni |
| Produced by | Jean Darvey |
| Starring | Lino Ventura Sandra Milo Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| Cinematography | Ghislain Cloquet |
| Edited by | Albert Jurgenson |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
Production companies | Mondex Films Les Films Odéon Filmsonor Zebra Films |
| Distributed by | Cinédis (France) Janus Films (US) |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Languages | French Italian |
| Box office | 1,726,839 admissions (France) |
Classe tous risques ([klas tu ʁisk]; literally "All-Risk Class", but also a pun on the French expression "Classe Touriste", Economy Class), which was first released in the United States as The Big Risk, is a 1960 French-Italian gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Milo. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by José Giovanni, who collaborated with Sautet and Pascal Jardin on the screenplay, the film tells the story of a French mobster on the run with his family, who returns to Paris with help from a new criminal acquaintance and confronts the members of his old gang.
Now widely considered a masterpiece, at the time of its release, the film was somewhat overshadowed by the French New Wave. However, it did influence French cinema, especially Jean-Pierre Melville's subsequent work.