The Big Risk

French gangster Lino Ventura, after years of hiding out in Italy with his wife and kids, decides things have gotten too hot and it's time to return to Paris -- even though he's been sentenced to death there in absentia. Sending his family ahead by train, Ventura and trusted pal Stan Krol pull a daylight robbery in Milan, make a breakneck getaway, then hijack a boat to the French Riviera. There, Ventura contacts his old cronies, now enjoying the spoils of their criminal exploits and leading comfortable, bourgeois lives. Considering their old chum too big a risk, they hire hotheaded Jean-Paul Belmondo to take him for a ride. Back home, Ventura learns hard lessons about friendship and the irretrievability of the past -- but not before he settles scores with his former friends.