Gustave Reininger

Crime Story then was scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights and continued to attract a record number of viewers.

[3] Reininger was a former international investment banker on Wall Street, who had caught Mann's attention with a screenplay he wrote about arson investigators, as well as a French-language thriller co-written and produced by him, starring Dennis Hopper.

Mann's agent managed to get in touch with Reininger while he was traveling incognito in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala, along with a Catholic bishop who supported liberation theology.

[citation needed] Reininger researched Crime Story by winning the confidence of Detective William Hanhardt who put him in touch with undercover officers in the Chicago Police Department.

Mann and Reininger's inspiration for the 1963-1980 arc came from their mutual admiration of the 15½ hour television film, Berlin Alexanderplatz, by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder'.

Reininger was served Spilotro's subpoena, and given a deadly warning, in a New York hotel bar by now infamous Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano, who in 2006 was imprisoned for illegal wiretapping, blackmail and harassment while representing notable entertainment figures.

He was on a management team supervising offshore banks, in a partnership venture with the Earl of Suffolk, John Scott-Ellis, the 9th Baron Howard de Walden.

The film also starred Bruno Cremer (Friedkin’s Sorcerer), Henri Serre (Jules et Jim) and Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane.

In addition to co-creating Crime Story, Reininger was a contributor to Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Robbery Homicide Division.