The Law (1959 film)
| The Law | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Jules Dassin |
| Written by | Diego Fabbri Françoise Giroud Jules Dassin |
| Based on | La Loi (1957 novel) by Roger Vailland |
| Produced by | Jacques Bar Maleno Malenotti |
| Starring | Gina Lollobrigida Yves Montand Pierre Brasseur Marcello Mastroianni |
| Cinematography | Otello Martelli |
| Edited by | Roger Dwyre Mario Serandrei |
| Music by | Roman Vlad |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | MGM (USA, theatrical, 1960) |
Release date |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
| Countries | Italy France |
| Languages | English French Italian |
| Budget | FRF 450,000,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $1,075,000[1] |
The Law (Italian: La legge, French: La Loi and originally released in America as Where the Hot Wind Blows) is a 1959 French-Italian film directed by Jules Dassin.[2]
Plot
[edit]Beautiful Marietta (Gina Lollobrigida) is a small-town girl who lives in southern Italian fishing village of Porto Manacore, a corrupt village ruled by a petty crook Matteo Brigante (Yves Montand). An engineer, Enrico Tosso (Marcello Mastroianni) comes into town to drain the marshes, and helps the villagers to take back their town.
Cast
[edit]- Gina Lollobrigida - Marietta
- Pierre Brasseur - Don Cesare
- Marcello Mastroianni - Enrico Tosso, the Engineer
- Melina Mercouri - Donna Lucrezia
- Yves Montand - Matteo Brigante
- Raf Mattioli - Francesco Brigante
- Vittorio Caprioli - Attilio, the Inspector
- Lidia Alfonsi - Giuseppina
- Gianrico Tedeschi - First Loafer
- Nino Vingelli - Pizzaccio
- Bruno Carotenuto - Balbo
- Luisa Rivelli - Elvira
- Anna Maria Bottini - Maria
- Anna Arena - Anna, Attilio's wife
- Edda Soligo - Giulia
- Joe Dassin - Nico
Production
[edit]The shooting took place in particular in the Gargano: precisely in Carpino, while some scenes were shot in Rodi Garganico, Ischitella, Peschici and San Menaio. The locality "Baia di Manacore" really exists a short distance from Peschici. It is one of the first films shot on the Gargano promontory. If in the novel and in the French version the story is set in the Gargano, in the Italian version the setting of the story is moved to Corsica.[3]
Box office
[edit]According to MGM records the film earned $750,000 in the US and Canada and $325,000 elsewhere, resulting in a net loss to the studio of $39,000.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Eleanor Mannikka (2008). "NY Times: The Law". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
- ^ "Baia di Manacore, Peschici sul Gargano, Peschici Puglia". www.peschici.it. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
External links
[edit]- The Law at IMDb
- The Law at AllMovie
- The Law at the TCM Movie Database
- The Law at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- 1959 films
- 1959 drama films
- French drama films
- Italian drama films
- English-language French films
- English-language Italian films
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s French-language films
- 1950s Italian-language films
- French black-and-white films
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films directed by Jules Dassin
- Films scored by Roman Vlad
- Films shot in Corsica
- Films set in Italy
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- 1950s Italian films
- 1950s French films
- 1950s multilingual films
- French multilingual films
- Italian multilingual films