The Law
The moral standards of a small Italian village fall to decay. Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the…
The Law
The moral standards of a small Italian village fall to decay. Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others. Illicit passions abound: the judge's wife pursues Francesco, son of crime boss Matteo, who is after Marietta (so is her brother-in-law); Marietta wants engineer Enrico for a husband, but he claims he's too poor to marry. So she decides to steal herself a dowry! All this may lead to an explosion...and some changes in who dictates 'the law.' —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu> 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. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Law
Comedy,Crime,Drama
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The moral standards of a small Italian village fall to decay. Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others. Illicit passions abound: the judge's wife pursues Francesco, son of crime boss Matteo, who is after Marietta (so is her brother-in-law); Marietta wants engineer Enrico for a husband, but he claims he's too poor to marry.
So she decides to steal herself a dowry! All this may lead to an explosion...and some changes in who dictates 'the law.' —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu> 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. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.