Crime Story - Department store robbery

[TheKustom59]

My dad has a black 59' Ford Custom 300 hes owned since 1962, then growing up this show came out and we never missed an episode. We have a collection of 59' Fords.

[Delriversit]

Got the first season from Netflix, today. Watched the first episode. Reminded me that television can actually be a good thing.

[Birdee101]

heck i was a little 8 year old boy watching Crime Story with my family, especially dad since he likes to restore old cars. We have a 1959 Ford Galaxie like those MCU black cars you see on the show. :)

[Birdee101]

Soccer moms and church fanatics is why we dont have good tv like this or NYPD Blue anymore. Not to mention the MOVIES anymore...its all about people makin cheap money off of CSI like shows and Teenager/College Humor Crap in the theatres. It was too violent for tv is why they got booted......Pathetic. Its like that rich woman in michigan that bitched and moaned about MArried with Children (al Bundy).

[sparkyspiers]

I love Terrelo he is awesome. The clohes,hairstyles music. It was such a great show.

[shortcutist]

Luca was so bad ass in this show!!!

[rjgundy]

Hmmm... the 50's sure looked a lot like the 80's.

[PsychoPunk1965]

@rjgundy It's 1963 actually, and the 1980s seemed a return to lots of the 1950s and even the early to mid 1960s motif...

[KZBProductionCo]

Where a white hat. i've watched this hundreds of times first time I caught that

[meamishere]

All the crooks are dressed like a bunch of Martin Castillos. I'm sure somebody gets that joke.

[KZBProductionCo]

@meamishere Not intentionally I don't think

[NeekeriRonja93]

OMG... WHO is that poker face?? HOT HOT HOT!!!!

[danielmountain]

True crime is far more interesting to read about, or watch, than fictional crime.

[KlayyJayy]

We need this in tv today, actual story lines

[crifoter69]

Biggest problem is being a total sociopath, this is a pleasant suprise for Mr Luca; he's thinking "Im not the least bit scared, see...I dont do emotion outside of rage and joy at vanquishing foes. But now I have the kind of personal challenge I love, and now I need more than anything for Turello, et al to lose....big". Dr Martha Stout's "The Sociopath Next Door" has his number. It's like there really are zombies, they're just easy on the eyes, couth, articulate, and charming from birth.

[Classicguy66]

The 1995 movie Heat was a remake of this episode, but much better. One of the bad guys on here, was in Heat.

[onegoodcop951]

What us real cops dream of doing when we work every shift. But there is the Constitution in place and we can only dream and watch tv shows.

[KlayyJayy]

@onegoodcop951 Only if you were in the mcu lol

[onegoodcop951]

What us real cops dream of doing when we work every shift.

[ElectricSwag]

Why don't make TV shows like this anymore?

[tallthinwavy3]

Was a Crime to take it off the air

[betontheblues]

When Luca opens that door, he's gonna get the surprise of his life - me, and Walter Clemons. Classic line.

[u12monkeys]

Crime Story is one of Mann's best. Especially liked the season in Vegas. My favourite character was always Ray Luca. Great bad guy.

[PsychoPunk1965]

@u12monkeys Paul Taglia was the likable goofball villain as well, the same goes for Frank Hullman...

[nhprman]

LOL - I just remembered this show today and thought how good it was. This pilot reminded me of that. But LOL I think the hair of the woman at 6:10 is a LITTLE too "Belinda Carlisle"/1980s for this early 1960s drama! :-)

[saladshop]

They shot the pilot Good Friday department store scene from 12-6 in the morning. I remember Michael Mann saying the extra's RUNNING for cover will make or break the sequence. There were zoot suits and bee hive hairdo's all over the place! I think it worked. It was so exciting.

[saladshop]

I worked as a cast extra in the pilot and on Taylor Street in Chicago (at a booking joint; I have a photo of all of us gansters on a Chicago police car!). In 1986 I suggested to the Custume Designer to check out the Orbit Room sign on north Broadway (I lived a block from it). They shot a video clip and added it to the opening sequence. Not sure if this sign was in Detroit in 1979.  Could have been!

[midmodgal]

"But Boss, what can happen in Park Ridge?" Top show, rare gem in a lame decade.(80's)

[crg55555]

is there any where to watch the whole 44 eps any1 know ty :)

[MrMpomy]

Old school Michael Mann Genius.

[TheVasco107]

See how easy it is? How really it is? When I take you down I am going to take you down right.. I am going to take you down all the way

Classic!!

[TheVasco107]

Crime story is a classic. Crime story and Miami Vice, classics I tell you. I wish that Crime story would have lasted more then 2 seasons.

If Hollywood ever gets their grimy paws on crime story I hope they don't screw it up like they did Miami Vice

[Vincek88]

@saladshop saladshop - you worked on the show's production? I remember seeing that "Orbit Room" sign on a bowling alley off I-94 outside Detroit around 1979. Same one?

[jksonny]

Loved Crime Story! Season 1 was particularly outstanding but Season 2 also had its moments. This pilot remains one of my favorie TV episodes/movies of all time. I was ecstatic when they released the series on DVD!

[oldrustycars]

Walter loved his cigars, and his shotgun. And what's up with Ray Luca's hair?

[sfjohn5]

how did the show end i forgot or is it on youtube =)

[jksonny]

It ended in an unresolved cliffhanger in Season 2. Torello, Luca, Taglia, Goldman and Krychek were all fighting inside a small plane that crashed into the ocean.

[Auggie56]

We need this guy heading up Home Land Security.

[TheGatorfan93]

Great pilot,okay show.Miami vice?great pilot good show...they had some bad ones..but the 25 great or near greats make it a classic.Crime story had maybe a few really good episodes.They ran out of ideas..REAL quick!

[OBAMASTINKSLIKEANAPE]

And the Americans get upset because Bush dripped some water up KSM's nose.

[logictoo]

i like how all the chicks have a kinda twist hair do. fuckin hot ! love these chicks !

[ethurst2]

This show is TEN times better than Miami Vice. Mann missed in keeping this one on the air. It aired on NBC and CBS or ABC would have gladly picked it up.

[CubeLuda]

god damnm there must be a way of watching this online. google is no help. I just found out about this a few days ago, been dying to find it eversince. Never heard of it before, what a shame.

[malleymyster]

i like how much this looks like the scene in the dark knight where batman beats up maroni outside his club. or maybe or maybe it's the otherway around

[edybeast]

One of the best action sequences I've seen on TV.

[ronarmjr]

I remember this episode I used to get so burned when Mike had Ray in his sights and , something always keeps him from pulling the trigger.

[mastermonarch]

I remember this show when I was a kid my dad never missed an episode I even started to like it they don't make cop shows like this no more its all about sex and rape and shit you don't want thrown in your face. the writers on law and order can take a page from this shows play book maybe then I would watch it.

[kenbird7]

this show was one of my favorites of all time. it has so many strong characters. you find yourself liking the good guys AND the bad guys. Great chemistry and great writing!! Love the Frank Holdman character!!

[maureencora1]

I wonder how John Woo would had done this scence.

[CesMan83]

Interesting that you brought up John Woo, because I always felt the rivalry Mike Torello had with Ray Luca in this show is similar to Chow Yun-Fat's Detective Tequila's enemy relationship with Triad boss Johnny Wong from "Hard Boiled"

[jksonny]

Great show!

[tucsonia]

Loved this show, loved this time period, part of the reason I like Mad Men also. One of my favorite supporting characters is that black cop. He never says much but he's just insouciantly bad, toting around that shot gun and calmly blowing people away, in between puffs of that cigar that's always in his mouth.

[nomadnametab]

My dad knew Chicago and said if you were somewhere and a fight started , just get out. When the cops came in EVERYBODY got whacked in the head. They were equal opportunity skull crackers. He heard the hippies were going to disrupt the 68 convention he when HOOO Boy! He knew what was comming. Tough city, tough cops.

[mikethegent]

I seen some footage from that yr,boy those chicago cops did not take shit....they were cracking skulls like they were give something away for free,,,,

[Michaelbos]

This show was cool, until they went to vegas and it becamse strange.

[Shnarch05]

"You posin' for pictures? Or you gonna pull the trigger?"

O, yeee! )))

[Grepple1234]

@Shnarch05 "See how easy it is? How very very easy it is? When I take you down, Im gonna take you down right. Im gonna take you down all the way".

[Shnarch05]

@Grepple1234 i like it!!!! )))))))))

[Grepple1234]

@Shnarch05 . Thanks very much. I appreciate it.

[Shnarch05]

I like this movie !!! Denison and Farrina best of the best !!! THANKS

[b42baritone]

I love this show. We all know that Dennis was a real Chicago police officer befor he was a actor. But, did you know that the actor John Santucchi,( Paulie) was a real jewel thief and Dennis busted him!

[BeeDotSix]

malley, of course you know that while Mann had a hand in both CS and Heat, Crime Story ran about 10-15 years before Heat ever screened in theatres.

[79274333]

anyone know if the Crime Story episodes are on the net, mainly the vegas ones

[malleymyster]

i also can't help but notice how the robbery theme here sounds a HELLUVA lot like "force marker" from heat

[chickensandwich77]

perhaps it is a Michael Mann style...

[malleymyster]

the bank robbery scene from heat (and the department store robbery here) are taken from the same heist. i just find it really cool how much of this you'll find in heat

[CesMan83]

Ted Levine was involved in both robbery scenes! Of course, he was a crook in this clip, and a cop in "Heat", so it's an interesting switch for the actor

[edybeast]

I remember Tony Denison playing an FBI agent in "Wiseguy" right after Ken Wahl broke his leg in a motorcycle accident. If I recall, the broken leg was written into the plot, and Denison had to fill in for Wahl's character.

[kkertez]

You might want to check your sources before you volunteer slanderous information like that, mikethegent. Yes, Hanhardt was convicted of a crime, but it was not run by the "Chicago Mafia". And despite his conviction, he is described by his peers and superiors as "probably the best of the best during his 32, 33-year career in the Chicago police department."

There's more to a man than his mistakes...and than what you read in the tabloids...

[FireBuff51]

I remember this show when I was a kid, but this is the first time that I have seen any of it. That was pretty bad ass!!!

[BufordStone]

"You posing for pictures or are you gonna pull the trigger?"

[Unibodyguy]

Since they redo everything else nowadays, why not pick the show back up, say 10 years later?? From when it ended and maybe could find a new audiance. The reason I heard it ended was that Michael Mann Productions put it up for sale after the first year and nobody bought it up so it ended. Guess he was trying to get rich after Miami Vice??

[MrEclectic61]

Is this out on dvd yet???

[rodela7]

yes it is i have the dvd

[alexfloydtabasco]

can you tell me please where i can get it? unfortunately i live in mexico :( and here we only know about very bad low-price productions. Thanks :)

[benlev99]

thats simillar to batman begins, real intimidating acting by farina

[CesMan83]

Interesting comparison, though I'm having trouble making the link...what parallels do you see between "Crime Story" and "Batman Begins"?

[benlev99]

basically the performance of the screaming police officer being incredible intimadting toards the crimnial. quite simmilar towards batman holding flass by a wire, maybe its just a motif used by american cinema and michael mann exposed it very early. after all christopher nolan is qouted to say he follows manns work.

[Yagamuri18]

The bank robbery scene from Nolan's Dark Knight probably drew inspiration from the bank robbery scene in Mann's Heat.

[greenbeaverfilms]

Hey, it's the "put the fucking lotion in the basket" guy!

[CesMan83]

About time somebody uploaded this scene! This is my favorite TV show of all time

[WayOutWardell]

Read the boigraphies of CPD officers Frank Pape and Bill Hanhardt. Most of the episodes of the first season were taken from the stories of just those two alone.

[mikethegent]

Too bad we find out later on in that Bill Hanhardt was involved with the Chicago Mafia running a burglary crew

[PsychoPunk1965]

This was my all time favorite 1980s program, and this is a great scene that DEFINED "Crime Story."

[plainwain]

Puts kind of a new twist on going to the mall eh? Stay clear of those "count rooms" !

[ronstermaniac1]

Too bad that the show ended the way it did. It was a great show. But it got really over the top, & lost a lot of qualities that made the show great in the first place.

[aylmer666]

seems kinda pointless all of this... considering they were all fighting on a plane which dove headlong into the ocean... killing them all off unceremoniously the end