The Sicilian Clan (1969)

This is a classic foreign movie released in 1969 ! There is plenty of action and great acting.If you like foreign films I highly recommend this.

I'm reviewing the 2-disc blu-ray edition, which comes with an English version as well as the French version. Overall, this is a great release. The French version looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, and is generally fantastic except for Ennio Morricone's score, which drove me a little nuts with its repeated use of a mouth harp that seemed entirely out of place and was distracting. If there were half-stars, I would give the movie 4.5 stars because of the score. The story itself is nothing spectacular, but it's absorbing, and it's always nice to see Alain Delon in anything, and particularly nice when Jean Gabin is also in the cast.

I love the intrigue and thought process that went into the crime.

If you are euro trash like me and you like movies from the 60s with a fantastic soundtrack, this one is for you.

I watched only a minute of it. I Thought Amazon made a mistake describing that film as 'English language' but no, it's really dubbed. How comes the original version is not an option. We are in the 21st century!

Excellent film.

Gabin is excellent as Manalese - Delon is his super cool self and of course Ventura is the cop who will stop at nothing to get his man and put him away. With a score by the world renowned film composer Ennio Morricone adds to the slickness of the movie. Henri Verneul is a ,master of the cinema and pulls no punches. Lovingly and beautifully restored and remastered its a must have for any gangster movie enthusiast.

Delivered in time with best condition.

And the award for most outrageous sexual symbolism of 1969 goes to Alain Delon, for his performance battering an eel to death on a rock after catching a glimpse of Irina Demick's body double nude sunbathing in The Sicilian Clan...Despite the title, this 1969 flic et voyou flick is definitely NOT a mob movie: the clan are a family of Sicilian crooks in France headed by Jean Gabin who spring Alain Delon from jail for a massive jewel robbery, with Lino Ventura's dogged cop on the trail. Based on a novel by Rififi author Auguste le Breton, there's little that's original (although the heist itself is spectacularly ingenious), but it's put together with polish and style and makes for an entertaining couple of hours. Henry Verneuil's direction raises the standard, while Delon, Ventura and Irina Demick offer good value. The once-great Gabin fares less well - although it's nice to see him reunited with his Touchez Pas le Grisbi nemesis Ventura in a couple of scenes, for much of the film he's more of an immoveable monument than much of a presence, only really coming across in his final scene, which taps in nicely to the resigned fatalism of his pre-war classics.It's not an all-time great, but it is an entertaining and atmospheric French thriller that nicely fills a couple of hours.Fox's DVD boasts good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer of the English-language version (the film was shot in French, Italian and English-language versions rather than simply dubbed, though Delon is the only major cast member to use his own voice in both versions) and includes the US trailer. For years only available with English subtitles as a Korean import, you can now get both the French version with English subtitles and the English-language version on Fox's region-free French/German/Italian Blu-ray releases, which offers fine transfers, a documentary on the making of the film, an interview about the film with the director of Pour Elle, Point Blank and Mea Culpa Fred Cavaye, archive interviews with the cast (an Easter Egg to be found by pressing right on the extras menu) and, on the accompanying DVD only, the French and US trailers for the film - and, unusually, the extras are also subtitled in English. While the German and Italian releases come in a standard plastic jewel case, the initial French copies came in a digibook with booklet in French only though the subsequent pressing was a standard jewel case.

Despite the title, this 1969 flic et voyou flick is definitely NOT a mob movie: the clan are a family of Sicilian crooks in France headed by Jean Gabin who spring Alain Delon from jail for a massive jewel robbery, with Lino Ventura's dogged cop on the trail. Based on a novel by Rififi author Auguste le Breton, there's little that's original (although the heist itself is spectacularly ingenious), but it's put together with polish and style and makes for an entertaining couple of hours. Henry Verneuil's direction raises the standard, while Delon, Ventura and Irina Demick offer good value. The once-great Gabin fares less well - although it's nice to see him reunited with his Touchez Pas le Grisbi nemesis Ventura in a couple of scenes, for much of the film he's more of an immoveable monument than much of a presence, only really coming across in his final scene, which taps in nicely to the resigned fatalism of his pre-war classics.There's a lot wrong with the video - it's from the days when dubbed panned and scanned versions of Scope foreign films were the norm rather than the exception, while at one point on my copy the theme tune from M*A*S*H bled through on the soundtrack to attack Ennio Morricone's score (could Fox be copying over old unsold tapes?). While Henri Decae's great photography does suffer, especially in the split-screen title sequence, at least Delon dubs himself (indeed, his sequences actually appear to have been shot in English). However, until someone decides this merits a widescreen subtitled release on DVD (it's only available unsubtitled in France), this tape is worth a shot, especially at a budget price.It's not an all-time great, but it is an entertaining and atmospheric French thriller that nicely fills a couple of hours.

A superb film with a superb cast - 3 of the great French actors - Gabin, Delon and Ventura - and its good to see them together in one film.Gabin gets Delon released from prison ( in an unusual way) to do a diamond heist for him, on a plane.Ventura, unusually, plays the policeman trying to sort it all out.Delon makes the mistake of romancing Gabin's son-in- law's wife, so his days are numbered.One of those hard-edged gangster films that the French are so good at - no soft-centres or happy endings .

It was a present I haven't seen it but the person I bought it for was delighted with it

This is one of famous director Henri Verneuil's best movies, and with three of the best actors in French cinema in the 1960s. A real classic.