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Bookmark this pageThe Sicilian Clan (1968)
Director: Henri Verneuil
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From Time Out Film Guide
Cast as the patriarch of a spaghetti-eating Sicilian family who are crooks to a man, the once formidable Gabin - stout, white-haired and now a bit past it - mostly sits back and glowers while the younger members of the cast squabble, lust and plot a caper involving the hijack of a plane-load of jewels. He finally rouses himself from his lethargy to defend his honour by executing Delon, a Corsican who had the temerity to play around with his daughter-in-law. Verneuil, not for the first time, tries to direct like Jean-Pierre Melville and fails to make it, though the action scenes are passable, and Henri Decaë's moody photography is rather more than that.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Henri Verneuil
Producer: Jacques-Eric Strauss
Cast: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Amedeo Nazzari, Sydney Chaplin, Karen Blanguernon full cast
Genre(s): Gangsters
Duration: 120 mins
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