Pay or Die

Pay or Die
Film poster
Directed by	Richard Wilson
Written by	Bertram Millhauser Richard J. Collins
Produced by	Richard Wilson
Starring	Ernest Borgnine
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	Walter Hannemann
Music by	David Raksin
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures
Release date	July 27, 1960 (1960-07-27)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Pay or Die is a 1960 American biographical and crime film directed by Richard Wilson and starring Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Howard Caine, Alan Austin, and Robert F. Simon.

Plot[]

The film is a dramatization of the career of New York City police officer Joseph Petrosino, a pioneer in the fight against organized crime in America. The film deals primarily with Petrosino and his Italian Squad's opposition to the extortion rackets of the Black Hand in lower Manhattan's Little Italy.

Cast[]

• Ernest Borgnine as Police Lt. Joseph Petrosino
• Zohra Lampert as Adelina Saulino
• as Johnny Viscardi
• Renata Vanni as Mama Saulino
• as Papa Saulino
• Robert F. Simon as Police Commissioner
• Robert Ellenstein as Luigi Di Sarno
• Howard Caine as Enrico Caruso
• as Lupo Miano (as John Duke)
• Vito Scotti as Officer Simonetti
• John Marley as D. Caputo, Ragman
• as Miss Salvi, Di Sarno's Secretary

Additional information[]

This film was also released under the following titles:

• La mafia – France
• Maksa tai kuole – Finland
• Pagar o morir – Venezuela
• Pagare o morire – Italy
• To telesigrafo tou thanatou – Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
• Zahl oder stirb – West Germany

References[]

External links[]

• Pay or Die at IMDb
• Pay or Die at AllMovie
• Pay or Die at the TCM Movie Database
• Pay or Die at the American Film Institute Catalog

• List of American films of 1960

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