Once again, the French are as dumb as the rest of us. A scrawny, rather obnoxious French tween goes around lying all the time, making up crazy stories, and now no one will believe him when some good-looking criminals on the run demand money and try to murder him. Maybe this sort of boy-who-cried-wolf story was a fresh and original in France.
Made in the mid-'80's. The escaped criminals had surprisingly stylish '80's haircuts.
The kid was preparing for his confirmation but the priest was mad at him. His grandmother tells him that God will grant him a wish for his confirmation. They have guests for dinner including the priest and she unwisely asks the kid what his wish is. He hesitates at first, then says he wants his school destroyed with everyone in it.
I watched maybe a quarter of Scene of the Crime, started fast forwarding and finally turned it off at around the halfway mark and started watching it again later, so you probably shouldn't listen to me.
It was on the Cohen Media Channel. The artwork they used for it was from a 1949 movie of the same name. I don't know if they put up the wrong art or the wrong movie. These high brow streaming video channels have some bad movies. Fandor has The Wild Geese with Roger Moore and Richard Burton and they all show old Herschell Gordon Lewis movies now.
I thought a better movie was Sudden Terror (1970). Mark Lester as a kid who tells a lot of crazy lies so no one believes him when he's a witness in an assassination. In the last twenty minutes, his grandfather karate kicks a cop down some stairs and shoots him with his own gun.
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