Yönetmen : Jules Dassin Oyuncular : Marcello Mastroianni, Yves Montand, Gina Lollobrigida, Melina Mercouri, Pierre Brasseur Senaryo : Jules Dassin, Françoise Giroud, Roger Vailland, Diego Fabbri Yapımcı : Jacques Bar, Maleno Malenotti

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.'