The Law (, 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.