In the Name of the Law (1949 film)
1949 film
- 13 March 1949 (1949-03-13) (Italian release)
Running time
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
- 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
The film won 3 Nastro d'Argento: Best Actor (Massimo Girotti), Best Supporting Actor (Saro Urzì) and a special award for Pietro Germi.
External links
- In nome della legge at IMDb
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Pietro Germi filmography
- The Testimony (1946)
- Lost Youth (1947)
- In the Name of the Law (1949)
- Path of Hope (1950)
- Four Ways Out (1951)
- The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952)
- Mademoiselle Gobete (1952)
- Jealousy (1953)
- Mid-Century Loves (segment "Guerra 1915—18", 1954)
- The Railroad Man (1956)
- A Man of Straw (1958)
- The Facts of Murder (1959)
- Divorce Italian Style (1961)
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
- L'immorale (1967)
- Serafino (1968)
- A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970)
- Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
- The Ten Commandments (1945)
- Against the Law (1950)
- My Friends (1975)
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