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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 French-Italian film directed by Jules Dassin.[2]
| The Law | |
|---|---|
.jpg) 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] |
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.
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]
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]
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