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White Heat

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White Heat
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NR,1hr 54min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1949
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien  ...more
Synopsis: In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best bad-guy portrayal. The star plays criminal mastermind Cody Jarrett, a mother-dominated psychotic who dreams of being on "top of the world." Inadvertently leaving clues behind after a railroad heist, Jarrett ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
James Cagney made his name on screen as a criminal, and he gave his last truly great outlaw performance in White Heat, which may well be the most intelligent and striking work of his career. While Cagney always knew how to lend his characters a charismatic menace, his Cody Jarrett in White Heat is both menacing and uncomfortably bizarre. Given to strange semi-epileptic seizures, sudden bursts of horrible ... Full Review
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James Cagney
Arthur Cody Jarrett
Virginia Mayo
Verna Jarrett
Edmond O'Brien
Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo
Steve Cochran
Big Ed Sommers
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