Entertaining Series for any Fan of Classic American Crime
Unlike the other review, all six of these discs played fine for me. I really enjoyed these shorts from both an historical perspective and for entertainment value. After watching them for a while, they become quite formulaic, but this in itself is quite entertaining to see as the absurdly greedy criminals go to no lengths to make a quick buck. For example, in one of the shorts involving a racketing scheme on a children's charity hospital, the thugs that set up the fake charity come to an impasse when they refuse back payment on an iron lung keeping a little girl alive; if the girl just happens to die, they can return the machine to keep their cash flow in; as one of them remarks to his boss, "It's that little kid that's gummin' up the works. I got an idea..." The boss replies, "I don't want to hear it...But if you have a plan, be careful." We then see the thug in a dark alley smashing up the fuse box to cut the power to the iron lung. Inevitably, in each episode, the police outsmart...
Great Content, Unfortunately Defectively Recorded
The contents of this set are quite an eye opener, that is those disks which will even play instead of reading disk error.
I intend to exchange my copy for a replacement. Every other made to order Warner Archives DVD has been able to play in my
DVD player. Of the six disks included in this set I have only been able to play 2. The product is essentially trash and I
could not recommend it to anyone until Warners gets it's copying problems resolved. The difficulties with attempting to play
this set has essentially ruined the show for me.
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