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The Law (1959 film)

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Director
  
Budget
  
450 million FRF

Duration
  

Country
  
Italy

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IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Crime, Drama

Music director
  
Language
  
The Law (1959 film) movie poster

Writer
  
,
Francoise Giroud

Release date
  
25 January 1959

Based on
  
La Loi(1957 novel) by Roger Vailland

Cast
  
(Marietta), (Don Cesare), (Enrico Tosso), (Donna Lucrezia), (Matteo Brigante),
Raf Mattioli
(Francesco Brigante)

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,
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Tagline
  
GINA AND MONTAND TURN DESIRE INTO FIRE WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS!

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The Law (Italian: La legge, French: La Loi and originally released in America as Where the Hot Wind Blows) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Jules Dassin.

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Plot

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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

  • 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
  • Box office

    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.

    References

    The Law (1959 film) Wikipedia
    The Law (1959 film) IMDb The Law (1959 film) themoviedb.org