Pay or Die
Appearance
Pay or Die | |
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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 |
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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
- Alan Austin as Johnny Viscardi
- Renata Vanni as Mama Saulino
- Bruno Della Santina as Papa Saulino
- Robert F. Simon as Police Commissioner
- Robert Ellenstein as Luigi Di Sarno
- Howard Caine as Enrico Caruso
- Barry Russo as Lupo Miano (as John Duke)
- Vito Scotti as Officer Simonetti
- John Marley as D. Caputo, Ragman
- Delia Nora Salvi 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
- ^ "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
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 AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Categories:
- 1960 films
- American films
- English-language films
- 1960 crime drama films
- Allied Artists films
- Films about Italian-American organized crime
- Films set in the 1900s
- Organized crime films based on actual events
- American crime drama films
- Films scored by David Raksin
- Films directed by Richard Wilson (director)
- 1960s crime drama film stubs