White Heat - BluRay (2005)
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Director:Raoul Walsh, Richard L. Bare
Studio:Warner Home Video
Producer:Louis F. Edelman
Writer:Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Rating:2
Rated:NR
Date Added:2014-04-12
Last Seen:2019-05-11
UPC:012569672352
Price:$19.98
Awards:Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination
Genre:Crime, Noir
Release:2005-01-24
IMDb:0042041
Location:BR0088
Duration:114
Picture Format:Academy Ratio
Aspect Ratio:1.37:1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French
Features:Black and White
Raoul Walsh, Richard L. Bare  ...  (Director)
Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts  ...  (Writer)
 
James Cagney  ...  Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett
Virginia Mayo  ...  Verna Jarrett
Edmond O'Brien  ...  Vic Pardo
Margaret Wycherly  ...  Ma Jarrett
Steve Cochran  ...  Big Ed Somers
John Archer  ...  Philip Evans
Wally Cassell  ...  'Cotton' Valletti
Fred Clark  ...  Daniel 'Trader' Winston
Sidney Hickox  ...  Cinematographer
Owen Marks  ...  Editor
Max Steiner  ...  Composer
Edward Carrere  ...  Art Director
Summary: 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 becomes the target of the feds, who send an undercover agent (played by Edmond O'Brien) to infiltrate the Jarrett gang. While Jarrett sits in prison on a deliberately trumped-up charge (he confesses to one crime to provide himself an alibi for the railroad robbery), he befriends O'Brien, who poses as a hero-worshipping hood who's always wanted to work with Jarrett. Busting out of prison with O'Brien, Jarrett regroups his gang to mastermind a "Trojan horse" armored-car robbery.