TY  - GEN
AU  - Verneuil,Henri
AU  - Gabin, Jean.
AU  - Alain Delon
AU  - Lino Ventura
AU  - Irina Demick
AU  - Amedeo Nazzari
AU  - Philippe Baronnet
AU  - Karen Blanguernon
AU  - Yves Brainville
AU  - Gérard Buhr
AU  - Elisa Cegani
AU  - Raoul Delfosse
AU  - Jacques Duby
AU  - Yves Lefebvre
AU  - Edward Meeks
AU  - Sally Nesbitt
TI  - The Sicillian Clan
AV  - DVD 004770 
PY  - 1969///
CY  - France
PB  - Les Films du Siècle
KW  - Crime
KW  - Drama
N1  - Every industry has its first family.
N2  - It might sound cliché, but I'm just going to use it and say it: "They just don't like that anymore". The Sicilian Clan truly deserves it and every second of the film is tightly acted and directed. We also have an absolutely magnificent soundtrack here courtesy of the Italian master composer Ennio Morricone which perfectly matches the mood and look of the film. Alain Delon, in one of his best performances, plays a master thief who gets hired by Jean Gabin for the occasion of pulling off a 50 million dollar jewel robbery. The jewelry is being shipped to a museum in New York by a passenger airplane and The Sicilian Clan want them all. The best way: hijack the plane! There is also a very good subplot involving Delon and the wife of the one of the Clan boys that runs along the way which is ultimately responsible for the film's very very satisfying finale. Beautifully shot in Panavision, the imagery is also great with lots of on location photography of the late 60's Paris. Sadly, this movie is not currently available on home video. It was theatrically released in North America by the 20th Century Fox and it grossed over $1 million dollars at the time which quite respectable. I don't know who currently has the rights to it but hopefully Anchor Bay will license and release it now that they have released another great one "Un Flic". Until then, I'm glad that at least I have a pan & scan copy I made from the cable
UR  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064169
ER  -