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The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino Synopsis

The story of Lt. Joseph Petrosino, an Italian-American New York City police detective, who was assigned to investigate the Sicilian Mafia, which was beginning to become a major problem in New York. He did such a good job that the city sent him to Sicily to gather information on the Sicily/New York Mafia connections. He was murdered in Palermo by Mafia gunmen. The 1960 film Pay or Die! (1960) starring Ernest Borgnine was also based on his life.

The Mysterious Mr. Browning Synopsis

By night, Mr. Browning (Walter Miller), a man of wealth, masquerades as Red Harrigan, a common frequenter of saloons. He soon becomes the notorious leader of an underworld gang in Detroit. After Browning experiences a series of escapes from the police and a famous detective, involving car chases and a dive into the Detroit River, the detective learns that "Harrigan" is really his own brother, and that the reason he began living a double life was to find and reclaim his sibling.