Written by James M. Tate / 8/22/2026 / No comments / alain delon , danielle volle , french , heist , irina demick , italian , jean gabin , lino ventura , neo noir , sixties , sydney chaplin
ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'
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| Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: *** |
The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars three famous foreign actors, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin, but each character takes up their own part of the three acts...
Starting out with one of the coolest jailbreaks... actually from a prison bus carrying Delon's career-criminal, given tools to cut a box-shape on the bus's floor, neatly timed against the guard and providing a genuinely nail-biting sequence... soon followed by another breakout: from a hotel window the morning after a hooker hookup...
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| Lino Ventura in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
Then there's token lawman Lino Ventura, who seems the most game to sink his usual square-jawed intensity into the proceedings, as if this were his very own police procedural...
Questioning/shadowing Delon's pretty sister Danielle Volle, before an intense yet slow-burn verbal showdown with mob boss Jean Gabin at his front-storefront, selling early arcade games and pinball machines (one creatively-shot sequence involving a toy plane is a visual standout for director Henri Verneuil)...
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| From THE SICILIAN CLAN |
The problem is the anticipated third-act diamond heist involving Jean Gabin with old school SICILIAN partners Sydney Chapin and Amedeo Nazzari...
Not only putting both Ventura and especially Delon aside (the latter in a rushed fling with Gabin's daughter-in-law), but, with the semi-hijacking of a commercial airliner, there's far too much time involved a completely uninvolving climax.
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| Alain Delon in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Sydney Chaplin in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Alain Delon in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Jean Gabin and Irina Demick in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Danielle Volle in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Alain Delon in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Lino Ventura in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Danielle Volle in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Alain Delon in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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| Irina Demick and Alain Delon in THE SICILIAN CLAN |
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