In the Name of the Law (1949 film)
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Directed by | Pietro Germi |
Written by | Pietro Germi Federico Fellini Giuseppe Mangione Aldo Bizzarri Tullio Pinelli |
Produced by | Luigi Rovere |
Starring | Massimo Girotti Saro Urzì Jone Solinas |
Cinematography | Leonida Barboni |
Edited by | Rolando Benedetti |
Music by | Carlo Rustichelli |
Distributed by | Lux Film |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Language | Italian |
In the Name of the Law (or In nome della legge) is a 1949 Italian language mafia drama film directed by Pietro Germi. It Is based on Giuseppe Guido Lo Schiavo's novel Piccola pretura. Federico Fellini co-wrote the script. The style of the film is close to Italian neorealism film movement.
Cast
[edit]- Massimo Girotti – Il pretore Guido Schiavi
- Jone Salinas – La baronessa Teresa Lo Vasto
- Camillo Mastrocinque – Il barone Lo Vasto
- Charles Vanel – Massaro Turi Passalacqua
- Saro Urzì – Il maresciallo Grifò
- Turi Pandolfini – Don Fifì
- Umberto Spadaro – L'avvocato Faraglia
- Saro Arcidiacono - Il cancelliere
- Ignazio Balsamo – Francesco Messana
- Nanda De Santis – Lorenzina La Scaniota
- Bernardo Indelicato: Paolino
- Nadia Niver – Bastianedda
- Aldo Sguazzini
- Alfio Macrì – Il sindaco Leopoldo Pappalardo
- Carmelo Olivero – Don Peppino
Awards
[edit]The film won 3 Nastro d'Argento: Best Actor (Massimo Girotti), Best Supporting Actor (Saro Urzì) and a special award for Pietro Germi.
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Categories:
- 1949 films
- Films about the Sicilian Mafia
- 1940s Italian-language films
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films about lawyers
- Films directed by Pietro Germi
- Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
- 1949 crime drama films
- Lux Film films
- Italian crime drama films
- 1940s Italian films
- 1940s Italian film stubs
- 1940s crime film stubs