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  2. Joseph Petrosino - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hand", written by novelist/screenwriter James Dalessandro. In My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell's collection of his feature articles from the 1930s, Petrosino appears as "Louis Sittenberg, the famous New York detective who was killed on a trip to Italy to bring back a Black Hand agent." Whether Mitchell's informant was confused or ...

  3. José Manuel Martínez (serial killer) - Wikipedia

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    José Manuel Martínez (born June 13, 1962), [citation needed] dubbed El Mano Negra ("The Black Hand") is a Mexican-American former self-described drug cartel hitman. [2] Martínez confessed to an estimated 36 murders and was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder in multiple states. He is incarcerated at USP Victorville in ...

  4. Pay or Die - Wikipedia

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    Things come to a head when the Black Hand attempts to extort money from the famous opera singer Enrico Caruso. Petrosino appoints himself the singer's personal bodyguard. After a performance one night, a Black Hand member places a bomb in Caruso's car. Only a forgotten hat saves the singer from the bomb that kills his chauffeur.

  5. Five on the Black Hand Side - Wikipedia

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    During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children—Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfield)—finally decide to stand up to their overbearing husband and father Mr. John Henry Brooks Jr. (Leonard Jackson) who displays retrogressive behavior.

  6. Don Fanucci - Wikipedia

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    Fanucci is a notorious Black Hand extortionist in Little Italy who supports himself by demanding and collecting protection money from neighborhood businesses. [3] Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) witnesses Fanucci threatening to disfigure a young girl when her father refuses to pay him and is about to intervene when he is stopped by his friend, Genco Abbandando, who tells him who Fanucci really is.

  7. Black Hand (1950 film) - Wikipedia

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    Black Hand is a 1950 American film noir directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting against the Black Hand extortion racket in New York City in the first decade of the 20th century.

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  9. Black Hand - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hand, an American silent gangster film, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr. The Black Hand, a 1917 Austrian silent crime film; Black Hand, an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket; The Black Hand, a French-Italian crime thriller film