PAY
OR DIE
1960.....
110 Minutes
Ernest
Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin
Based
on real incidents in the life and death of Lt. Joseph Petrosino
(Ernest Borgnine) of the New York police force, this tale set
between 1906-1909 details the history of the lieutenant's fight
to prove Sicilian Mafia involvement in crimes in his city. Lt.
Petrosino has a series of dangerous close calls as he distinguishes
himself by saving singer Enrico Caruso from a Mafia bomb outside
the Metropolitan Opera, and by also saving the father of Adelina
(Zohra Lampert) the woman he loves. Several other exploits eventually
lead to Petrosino's trip to Sicily to nail evidence for the
Mafia's activities in New York. One of the best mafia films
ever made.
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