I Am the Law

1977 · 113 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 724 VOTES · DIR. Pasquale Squitieri

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Overview

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

Dialogue Timeline — 24 lines

00:00:36 THE IRON PREFECT
00:01:22 Come in!
00:01:25 - Excellency, just a few minutes left. - Thank you.
00:01:49 I wasn't sleeping, you know? Are we there?
00:01:52 Not yet. I have to leave you alone for a while.
00:01:58 Don't ask me anything.
00:01:59 I'll get on the train again, at the next station.
00:38:52 Honored to have you here.
00:38:58 Uncle Carmelo! I thought you were a good Christian
00:39:02 respectful as we all are. Instead, I heard that you and the others...
00:39:06 refuse to cultivate the earth that belongs to the Church.
00:39:09 - This is a sacrilege! - Who sent you? The Bishop?
00:39:12 The Bishop? The Holy father himself sent me... You understand?
00:39:20 What should I report? That tomorrow he'll find the wheat cropped and the sheaves raised?
00:39:24 I can't do that alone! And the others won't work if they aren't paid.
00:39:29 What they get is a misery, but Don Niccolò won't even pay that.
00:39:33 He talks about San Giuseppe, Sant'Antonio and the Madonna, but he never pays.
00:39:39 If the Holy father called you to Heaven, I bet that you'd ask him to pay for the trip!
00:39:45 Don't tell me all this stuff - you just have to answer: yes or no!
00:39:50 That's what I have to report.
00:39:54 No! I can't! - You've pissed me off!
00:39:58 - Carmelo! - Traitor!
00:40:01 You should be careful; you'll end up burning in hell if you carry on behaving this way.
00:40:08 Carmelo!

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed24
Dialogue density0.2 lines / min
First line00:00:36
Final line00:40:08

Production Record

DirectorPasquale Squitieri
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes724