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.

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.

Rather shy socially, Petrosino is astonished to find out that the daughter of a family he assisted, Adelina Saulino, is in love with him, and they are eventually married.

He conveys this message back home by mail, trusting rookie cop Johnny Viscardi to carry on for him if the worst happens.