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THE SICILIAN CLAN
1969
Director
Henri Verneuil
Starring
Jean Gabin
Alain Delon
Lino Ventura
Irina Demick
Runtime
121 minutes
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There are crime movies, and then there are crime movies created by a team consisting of Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Alain Delon, Ennio Morricone, and a producer who apparently saw no reason to stop adding movie gods to the roster.
Henri Verneuil's 1969 caper follows a powerful Sicilian crime family, a ruthless professional thief, and an increasingly complicated jewel heist that stretches from Paris to New York. The mechanics of the plot are satisfying, but the real attraction is watching three giants of European cinema circle one another. There's a fashionable aloof coolness to French gangsters that is unrivaled. Case in point: Alain Delon eel fishing in shades, a blousey open shirt, and leather pants. He should look neither cool nor masculine, but he is both of those things to a point that is beyond measurement. Then he smashes the eel against a rock... erotically.
Welcome to French crime heaven.
“Plays out so casually that its narrative precision only becomes apparent at the end, when it suddenly turns from the RIO BRAVO of caper movies into the CASABLANCA of them.” - Matt Lynch
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
A cool, elegant crime score driven by a striking mix of acoustic guitar, jew's harp, whistling, and a strange, reverberating "Sicilian boing." Glides forward with effortless coolness.
Henri Verneuil's 1969 caper follows a powerful Sicilian crime family, a ruthless professional thief, and an increasingly complicated jewel heist that stretches from Paris to New York. The mechanics of the plot are satisfying, but the real attraction is watching three giants of European cinema circle one another. There's a fashionable aloof coolness to French gangsters that is unrivaled. Case in point: Alain Delon eel fishing in shades, a blousey open shirt, and leather pants. He should look neither cool nor masculine, but he is both of those things to a point that is beyond measurement. Then he smashes the eel against a rock... erotically.
Welcome to French crime heaven.
“Plays out so casually that its narrative precision only becomes apparent at the end, when it suddenly turns from the RIO BRAVO of caper movies into the CASABLANCA of them.” - Matt Lynch
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
A cool, elegant crime score driven by a striking mix of acoustic guitar, jew's harp, whistling, and a strange, reverberating "Sicilian boing." Glides forward with effortless coolness.