The Law Is the Law

Name: La legge è legge
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1958-09-17
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Totò, Fernandel, Nino Besozzi

Original title: La legge è legge

1958
1h 35m

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7.4/10

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Fernandel and Totò in The Law Is the Law (1958)

Comedy

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian ... Read allAssola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and theref... Read allAssola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

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7.4/10

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Nino Besozzi, Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, and Totò in The Law Is the Law (1958)

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Trivia
Although set on the border between France and Italy, the movie was filmed in Venafro, in Southern Italy.

Connections
Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Fernandel

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Dura lex sed lex

The "imagine there's no countries/it's not hard to do" "frontiers are absurd" concept was much better applied on Christian-Jaque's "Si Tous Les Gars Du Monde " (1956).This Italian-French production is rather ponderous.Both Fernandel (who had seen better days with Christian-Jaque in the thirties with "Ernest le Rebelle" "Un De La Legion" or "François Premier" )and his Italian counterpart Toto overact as if the director had left them to their own devices.

The screenplay was delirious though:whatever he says or does,Fernandel finds himself back against the law,a law which is his reason to live.In turn,an alien in his homeland,a deserter ,a bigamist,you name it.It would have taken an Italian director such as Dino Risi or Luigi Comencini to treat this story successfully.

Probably made to capitalize on the success of Duvivier's "Don Camillo" series.

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