Alain Delon
Roger Sartet
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The Sicilian Clan: Directed by Henri Verneuil. With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick. An ambitious young mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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- Crime, Drama
- Henri Verneuil
- 1969-12-01
The Sicilian Clan (French: Le clan des Siciliens) is a 1969 French-Italian gangster film based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton. The film was directed by Henri Verneuil and stars Jean Gabin , Lino Ventura and Alain Delon , whose casting led to the film's box-office success in France.
Film Review. O ne of the most popular and slickest French crime thrillers of the 1960s, Le Clan des Siciliens owes its enduring popularity to the fact that it brings together three giants of French cinema: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura. Director Henri Verneuil had previously pulled off the casting coup of uniting Gabin and Delon in ...
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Feb 15, 2017 · These films melded the doomed fatalism of film noir with documentary-like attention to the mechanics of how a heist is actually perpetrated. Based on a novel by Rififi scribe August Le Breton, Henri Verneuil’s The Sicilian Clan falls squarely in this tradition with its hardboiled tale of cynical jewel thief Roger Sartet (Alain Delon). On the ...
Sep 30, 2019 · Four Stars. Henri Verneuil’s The Sicilian Clan was a large budget affair backed by money from Fox and featuring three of the largest stars of French Cinema at the time—Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, and Lino Ventura. Verneuil ( Any Number Can Win, A Monkey in Winter) was a director in the “Tradition of Quality” so despised by the New Wave ...
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Delon is a cold-blooded gangster, on the run from killing two cops during a robbery, who teams up with a Mafia family (the titular "Sicilian Clan") with its base of operations in Paris, headed by Gabin. Together they plan a jewel heist worth over 500 million, en route from Rome to New York.
Jan 1, 2023 · Henri Verneuil's The Sicilian Clan appears to be cut from the same cloth as the other gangster films of the 1950s and 1960s pioneered by Jean Pierre Melville.
