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Crime Story (Pilot Episode)

starring: Dennis Farina, Anthony John Denison, Bill Smitrovich, Steve Ryan, Bill Campbell
directed by: Abel Ferrara

: Crime Story (Pilot Episode)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305971757
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305971757
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 31867
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1986



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Description:
Chicago, 1963: Lieutenant Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) is a hair-triggered cop who can bend the law and pummel punks in the same breath. Ray Luca (Anthony Denison) is a ruthless young gangster on the rise in the vicious Chicago underworld. Together, these two desperate men will turn the streets of Chicago into their own personal battlefield of justice, revenge, and murder. David Caruso, Stephen Lang, Darlanne Fluegel, and Bill Campbell co-star in this stunning pilot feature from executive producer Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat) and director Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Fear City) that launched the cult classic television series.

Amazon.com:
Though Hill Street Blues got all the awards and Miami Vice got all the attention, for some viewers it's the short-lived Crime Story (the second series produced by Vice's Michael Mann) that stands as tall as the great cop show of the 1980s. Set to a gritty rock & roll beat--with Del Shannon's 'Runaway' providing the perfect theme song--the series chronicled the early '60s rise of gangster Ray Luca (Anthony John Dennison) and his hounding by hard-boiled policeman Michael Torrello (Denis Farina, who will never have another part this good). Save for the show's eventual relocation to Las Vegas, the Chicago-based pilot, expertly helmed by cult director Abel Ferrara, lines up all the elements that made Crime Story a classic: vivid performances, slick photography, brutal violence, and a genuine sense of the moral murk cops can be sucked into when they feel that any method is justified. Indeed, it's often Torrello, given to back-alley beatings and possessive stares at his wife (Darlanne Fleugel), who seems the scarier of the two leads; Luca kills without compunction, but with an assassin's dispassionate celerity. Such complexity, combined with the exciting action scenes, makes for wonderful viewing, however much it hurt with the Nielsen ratings. --Bruce Reid



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Awsome TV series
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Before the Soprano's there was...CRIME STORY!!!
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - gritty Ellroy-esque crime show
Crime Story is a a lean, mean cop show drama that features politically incorrect police officers battling ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Yeah!!!
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Set My Series Free!!!!!!
I don't know what gets into the studios sometimes. This was one of my favorite series at the time I would ... Read More

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