Directed by:
Jules DassinScreenplay:
Jules DassinCinematography:
Otello MartelliComposer:
Roman VladCast:
Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Yves Montand, Teddy Bilis, Paolo Stoppa, Melina Mercouri, Raf Mattioli, Vittorio Caprioli (more)Plots(1)
In the Italian fishing village of Porto Manacore, the men gather in the local tavern in the night to play a game called "The Law", where one of them is selected as "The Boss" after an allotment and the others are humiliated by him. The real boss of the town is the powerful aristocrat Don Cesare, an old man in his last days but still in the command. The young and sexy small time crook Marietta is the servant of Don Cesare and sexually disputed by the hoodlum Matteo Brigante, by her brother-in-law Tonio and by the engineer Enrico Tosso. Marietta wants to marry Enrico, but she is too poor and does not have a dowry. The local Inspector Attilio is an unfaithful husband and the naughty Giuseppina is his mistress. Donna Lucrezia is the judge's wife that has a crush on the lawyer student and Matteo's son Francesco. When Marietta steals a large amount of a Swiss tourist, she sees the chance to marry Enrico, but the police are investigating the case. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gina Lollobrigida
Italy
Best movies:
Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
Pierre Brasseur
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
The Gates of Paris (1957)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Marcello Mastroianni
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Like Father, Like Son (1957)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Yves Montand
Italy
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Teddy Bilis
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Rififi (1955)
The Gates of Paris (1957)
Paolo Stoppa
Italy
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Melina Mercouri
Greece
Best movies:
He Who Must Die (1957)
The Victors (1963)
The Law (1959)
Raf Mattioli
Italy
Best movies:
The Law (1959)
Violent Summer (1959)
Vittorio Caprioli
Italy
Best movies:
Le Magnifique (1973)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
Lidia Alfonsi
Italy
Best movies:
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Les Trois visages de la peur (1963)
Face to Face (1967)
Franco Pesce
Italy
Best movies:
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
The Diamond Peddlers (1975)
Forgotten Pistolero (1969)
Joe Dassin
USA
Best movies:
He Who Must Die (1957)
The Law (1959)
Topkapi (1964)
Luisa Rivelli
Italy
Best movies:
The Big Gundown (1967)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
Bruno Carotenuto
Italy
Best movies:
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Law (1959)
Violent Summer (1959)
Nino Vingelli
Italy
Best movies:
Purple Noon (1960)
The Professor (1986)
The Sucker (1965)
Marcello Giorda
Italy
Best movies:
The Great War (1959)
The Law (1959)
Gianrico Tedeschi
Italy
Best movies:
Adua et ses compagnes (1960)
Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)
Long Live Freedom (2013)
Anna Maria Bottini
Italy
Best movies:
The Leopard (1963)
The Law (1959)
Fripouillard et cie (1959)
Anna Arena
Italy
Best movies:
Vacation with a Gangster (1954)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
Edda Soligo
Italy
Best movies:
Twelve Hours to Live (1950)
La Ragazza con la valigia (1961)
The Law (1959)