Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This isn't really a review, but as I found the product description lacking, I decided to compile this list of helpful information below. I hope this will be useful for prospective buyers to know what they're getting: THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931): 83 minutes – Director: William A. Wellman - Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow - Genre: Noir, crime - Plot: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. PG THE MALTESE FALCON (1941): 100 minutes – Director: John Huston - Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor - Genre: Noir, crime - Plot: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. PG THE BIG SLEEP (1946): 114 minutes – Director: Howard Hawks - Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall - Genre: Noir, crime - Plot: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. PG STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): 101 minutes – Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker - Genre: Thriller - Plot: A psychotic socialite confronts a pro-athlete with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement. PG NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): 136 minutes – Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason - Genre: Thriller, action - Plot: A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. PG DIRTY HARRY (1971): 102 minutes – Director: Don Siegel - Starring: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson - Genre: Thriller, crime- Plot: When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. R DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975): 125 minutes – Director: Sidney Lumet - Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale - Genre: Thriller, crime - Plot: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. R LETHAL WEAPON (1987): 110 minutes – Director: Richard Donner - Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover - Genre: Action, thriller - Plot: Two cops, one veteran, one suicidal are forced to pair up together to stop a gang of drug smugglers. R BATMAN (1989): 126 minutes – Director: Tim Burton - Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson - Genre: Superhero, action - Plot: The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker. PG-13 GOODFELLAS (1990): 146 minutes – Director: Martin Scorsese - Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci - Genre: Crime, drama - Plot: Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. R THE FUGITIVE (1993): 130 minutes – Director: Andrew Davis - Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones - Genre: Action, thriller - Plot: Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt. PG-13 NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994): 118 minutes – Director: Oliver Stone - Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr. - Genre: Crime - Plot: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. R THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994): 142 minutes – Director: Frank Darabont - Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman - Genre: Drama - Plot: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. R SE7EN (1995): 127 minutes – Director: David Fincher - Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey - Genre: Crime, thriller - Plot: Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a twisted serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. R HEAT (1995): 170 minutes – Director: Michael Mann - Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer - Genre: Action, crime - Plot: A driven cop and a professional bank robber go head-to-head in this epic crime drama. R L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997): 138 minutes – Director: Curtis Hanson - Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce - Genre: Crime, mystery - Plot: As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - the straight-laced, the brutal, and the sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. R AMERICAN HISTORY X (1998): 119 minutes – Director: Tony Kaye - Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong - Genre: Crime, drama - Plot: A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. R THE DARK KNIGHT (2008): 152 minutes – Director: Christopher Nolan - Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger - Genre: Superhero, action - Plot: When the law of Gotham launches an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level. PG-13 INCEPTION (2010): 148 minutes – Director: Christopher Nolan - Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard - Genre: Action, sci-fi - Plot: A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible. PG-13 THE TOWN (2010): 125 minutes – Director: Ben Affleck - Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm - Genre: Crime, thriller - Plot: As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down. R Now let's crunch some numbers. This collection costs $62.95, and contains 20 films. To find the value of the individual film you're getting, we divide the price by the number of films to get an individual price of $3.15 per film, an excellent price for this eclectic and thrilling set of crime and thriller films. I hope this information is useful. Cheers!