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DVD Release Date: Aug. 27, 2013

Price: DVD $39.95

Studio: MHz Networks

Alain Delon is an ex-undercover cop called back into action in Frank Riva: The Complete Series.

Legendary French stage and screen actor Alain Delon (Purple Noon) stars as an ex-undercover cop is called in from retirement after 25 years of exile to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of his brother in a drug sting operation in the French crime-drama television show Frank Riva: The Complete Series.

A former law enforcer a man who ignores social convention and flouts rules and regulations, and who lives according to his own deep conviction of right and wrong, Delon’s Frank Riva he finds himself back on the trail of the notorious Loggia crime family, who had put a bounty on his head decades earlier during the French Connection days. Frank is forced to pick up the pieces of a life he...

Tom Ripley has become one of our great modern characters, just as Highsmith seems to be a writer who knew our ambivalence before we'd noticed it. But no one has done Ripley better than Alain Delon.

Alain Delon has been around so long it's often forgotten that he served in the French military in the 1950s in Vietnam when it was still Indochina. Subsequently, he has brushed heroism or duty aside by saying he spent much of his service in military prisons, just as before that he had been expelled from several schools. It's as if his astonishing beauty required some offsetting reality, a tendency to rebelliousness or worse, which reached its climax in 1968 when Delon was questioned by police about the murder of one of his own bodyguards. No charges were brought, but it became clear that he had close ties with the underworld. That was not new among...

PARIS -- French TV company Carrere Group has added to its roster of local production companies by taking a 51% stake in drama producer PM Holding, Carrere said Monday. Run by Alain Pancrazi, PM specializes in law-and-order drama series and mini-series such as Frank Riva starring Alain Delon, Commissaire Moulin and The Judge. The company has annual revenue of around $25 million. PM joins Carrere's growing galaxy of production companies, which includes drama producers Dune and Ego Productions, documentary-maker Productions Tony Comiti, and the production banners of popular local presenters Benjamin Castaldi and Guillaume Durand. Carrere's core activity is cartoon series with occasional forays into motion picture production, recently making The Last Sign starring Andie MacDowell and Tim Roth.