The Law (1959 film)

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

Plot
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

Production
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.

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.