Lino Ventura cuts a menacing figure in Claude Sautet’s Classe tous risques (Criterion, $31.96 Blu-ray, $23.96 DVD). Maintaining a detached exterior even when his measures grow increasingly desperate, his character, a gangster-on-the-lam named Abel Davos, keeps a stoic demeanor punctuated by fits of volcanic temper. Sentenced to death in his native France, he first appears as an … [Read more...]