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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 |
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.
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