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White Heat is a 1949 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time.
White Heat: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly. A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Cody Jarrett ( James Cagney) is the ruthless, deranged leader of a criminal gang. Although married to Verna ( Virginia Mayo ), Jarrett is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, 'Ma' Jarrett ( Margaret Wycherly ), who is his only real confidant.
Gang leader Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) lives for his mother, planning heists between horrible headaches. During a train robbery that goes wrong, Cody shoots an...
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White Heat. 1949 · 1 hr 54 min. TV-PG. Drama · Crime. A hardened and volatile gangster unknowingly befriends an undercover cop in prison before he plots the seemingly perfect heist upon his release. Subtitles: English. Starring: James Cagney Virginia Mayo Edmond O'Brien Margaret Wycherly Steve Cochran John Archer Wally Cassell Fred Clark.
White Heat, American crime film released in 1949 that is considered the definitive James Cagney vehicle and perhaps the best of the Warner Brothers crime dramas. Cody Jarrett (played by Cagney) is a cold-blooded killer who has an uncomfortable oedipal relationship with his domineering mother.
Aug 1, 2016 · We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. Feel free to send us your trailer requests and we will do our best to hunt it down. Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and ...
Jan 24, 2019 · “White Heat,” about the final months in a gang leader’s life, is a ruthless tale, ruthlessly told—an artistic peak for its star James Cagney and its director, Raoul Walsh, who had worked on two other features together, the gangster classic “The Roaring Twenties” and the romantic comedy “The Strawberry Blonde.” Their teamwork in ...
James Cagney’s performance as the despicable Cody Jarrett smears Raoul Walsh’s 1949 White Heat with relentless bitterness and misanthropy. Devoted only to his equally criminally-minded mother (Margaret Wycherly), a character seemingly inspired by the real-life Ma Barker, Cody has just led his gang through a successful train hold-up, which ...
White Heat is an entertaining, fascinating and hypnotic portrait of a flamboyant, mother-dominated and fixated, epileptic and psychotic killer, who often spouts crude bits of humor.