Crime Classics grew out of a long-standing and deep interest of actor-director Elliott Lewis in history's great murder cases. Lewis had compiled an extensive library of true crime cases, often primary source material dating from the 17th century. He decided to re-create not only the facts of the crimes but also the times in which they had occurred. This would encompass the sounds of an Edinburgh street in the 1830s as well as the dialects, the attitudes, and the way people thought in that distant time. Writers Morton Fine and David Friedkin would dramatize lightly: their routine {as described to Radio Life} was more a matter of discussion than writing. With Lewis, they would comb through the original periodicals, seldom rewriting but making "verbal revisions" as they went. Once they got an outline down, the scripting was
( John Dunning )
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