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The Law (Gina Lollobrigida)

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Synopsis

In The Law, pigeons and vagabonds populate the town square of Porto Manacore, the seedy Italian fishing village perched above the Adriatic where passion and power are equally corrupt. Overlooking the immoral hoi polloi from his baroque apartment on high is the town’s wealthy patriarch Don Cesare (Pierre Brasseur, anticipating Marlon Brando’s Vito Corleone). Lusted after by the men of the town is his gorgeous housekeeper, Mariette (Gina Lollobrigida), the resident whipping girl to the Don’s other female caretakers. When the handsome yet broke Milanese engineer Enrico Tosso (Marcello Mastroianni) comes to town, Mariette concocts a daring scheme to marry him. But the devilish Matteo Brigante (Yves Montand), local brute and admirer of Mariette, connives to shut Enrico out by using “The Law,” a vicious drinking game and humiliating power play, as his weapon of choice.

Piquing censors at the time of its initial release, Jules Dassin's film is a sexy, lurid, occasionally campy romp amongst the lowly and the exalted, the suave and the callow, and the otherwise contradictory inhabitants of the gorgeously photographed Mediterranean.

Review

In this unheralded masterpiece, a sultry beauty in a small Italian town is desired my all the men, but she loves a handsome young engineer of an upper class. She sets out to steal a dowery for their love and in the process exposes the town's biggest secrets. (In French & Italian with English subtitles)

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DVD : $31.49 (Uncensored 2-disc set)

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Region Code: 1
UPC: 896602002111
Catalog #: DV1299822

Studio : Oscilloscope Pictures

Languages: French (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.33
Features:
Digitally remastered: Uncensored French-language version of The Law.
Audio commentary: All new feature length audio commentary by film critic David Fear.
New English-language subtitle translation by Lenny Borger.
Alternate ending(s): Mariette’s Revenge
Bonus film: 1958 episode of Cinépanorama from the set of The Law, featuring Jules Dassin, Gina Lollobrigida, Yves Montand, and Melina Mercouri.
Interview(s): 1957 television interview with La Loi novelist Roger Vailland, from French television program Lectures pour tous.
Documentaries: L’Ultima Osteria (2010, dir. Alfredo De Giuseppe) – a documentary film about The Law as played in southern Italy today.
Essay: An exclusive essay by Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive.
Original theatrical trailer