The Dictator's Guns (1965) 1080p FRA BluRay x265 10bit AC3 2.0 - ...

Five years after his debut film, Classe tous risques, director Claude Sautet reteamed with Ventura for this little-seen follow-up, based on the novel Aground by hardboiled maestro Charles Williams. Set in the Caribbean but filmed on the Mediterranean coast, the film seems less an homage to American B thrillers than a meticulous recreation of one, down to the casting of the Hollywood veteran Leo Gordon as the heavy. Ventura seems to be channeling John Garfield as the protagonist, a freelance ship’s captain duped into providing cover for a gun-running plot.

NOTE: This is encoded from the French Tamasa Diffusion blu-ray release which is the only blu-ray release of this film. They are notorious for subpar quality. The audio in particular is pretty atrocious. I didn't encode the audio, it is like this (192 kbps AC-3) on the disc. I will update this encode if a better disc comes out at some point. Still, this is the best this film has probably ever looked, so enjoy!


This film is a part of my Claude Sautet collection, which includes:

Classe touse risques / The Big Risk
The Dictator's Guns / L'Arme à gauche
The Things of Life / Les Choses de la vie
Max and the Junkmen / Max et les ferrailleurs
César and Rosalie / César et Rosalie
Vincent, François, Paul and the Others / Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
A Simple Story / Une histoire simple
A Bad Son / Un mauvais fils
Waiter! / Garçon!
A Few Days with Me / Quelques jours avec moi
A Heart in Winter / Un cœur en hiver
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud / Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud