Why are there so many American police procedurals on French TV? Is it because French women have a massive crush on David Caruso? This and other hypotheses come to mind...
Rowan Joffe sets this adaptation in 1964, amidst the mods and the rockers. A mods-versus-rockers riot serves as chaotic cover for one of the film’s acts of murder.
Crime Story was too smart for network television, but too risk-averse to make the kind of bold statements you can feel lurking beneath the surface in the better episodes.
