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cosmicjim	Italian silent?	Lead	[-]
Dec 8 11 12:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Any idea what "Italian Sherlock Holmes" was? I found this title listed in a Dramatic Mirror listing from 11-2-1910, and the only info given there was that it was released by a company called Yankee.
doctor kiss		#1	[-]
Dec 8 11 2:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Yankee Film Co. operated out of Fort Lee, NJ and Manhattan, NYC between 1909 and 1912, at which point it was subsumed within Carl Laemmle's Universal. THE ITALIAN SHERLOCK HOLMES was a sensationalist detective adventure in which Italian-American detective Petrosino battled (and triumphed over) mafia operatives who had kidnapped a woman in New York. This was one of several Petrosino detective adventures produced at the very beginning of the 1910s, all of which drew inspiration from the recently deceased real-life figure of Joseph Petrosino [Wikipedia link], who had indeed frequently been referred to as 'The Italian Sherlock Holmes' in the press during his lifetime.
cosmicjim		#2	[-]
Dec 8 11 2:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	thanks! that was the only title/info that was listed.
Wich2		#3	[-]
Dec 8 11 10:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Petrosino was a bonafide hero - and paid for it with his life. He's covered well in a great long docu about the Mafia - A & E or History Channel?
clore103051		#4	[-]
Dec 9 11 2:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	He was also the subject of the 1960 Ernest Borgnine film PAY OR DIE.

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