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1. White Heat. 1949 1h 54m Approved. 8.1 (36K) Rate. 89 Metascore. A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Director Raoul Walsh Stars James Cagney Virginia Mayo Edmond O'Brien. 2.
- Regeneration
- Me and My Gal
- The Bowery
- The Roaring Twenties
- They Died with Their Boots on
- The Strawberry Blonde
- Pursued
- Colorado Territory
- Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
- The World in His Arms
Walsh’s apprenticeship under Griffith paid off with his first feature, commonly recognised as the first gangster picture. We’re a long way from the archetypal likes of Scarface (1932) though, as Regenerationangles for an authentic presentation of a young man dragged up through the slums. Walsh was no sentimentalist, and the film isn’t shy in its de...
The plot might be almost non-existent, and Walsh would be the first first to disavow any readings approaching thematic intent, but there’s no mistaking Me and My Gal for anything but a rough-n-tumble masterpiece, and perhaps Walsh’s best film. Ripe, pre-Code dialogue, zero tolerance for bullshit, drunken fisticuffs – it’s all here: the Raoul Walsh ...
The authentically inhabited sense of character and milieu that served Me and My Gal so well continues into The Bowery, another narrative meander, this time through the “livest mile on the face of the globe” in “gay 90s” New York. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper re-team following King Vidor’s sentimental slugfest The Champ the previous year. Walsh d...
“This is Eddie Bartlett… He used to be a big shot.” The final lines of the quintessential Warner Brothers picture, spoken on the steps of a church – a pietà that was later transposed to those of an opera house by Francis Ford Coppola for the climax of The Godfather Part III (1990). High praise indeed. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn ...
Once embedded within the studio system, Walsh cultivated a series of working relationships with his leading men. Cagney and Bogart headed a handful of flicks apiece, while Errol Flynn starred in a series of seven films that deserve similar standing to the famous sequence of westerns made by director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott. They Die...
One of Walsh’s own favourites among his films, and destined to be the same for anyone who seeks it out, the hilarious, gloriously romantic Strawberry Blonde shows up the filmmaker’s soft side without neglecting his more pugnacious inclinations. James Cagney is the trainee dentist, learning his trade by mail-order at the tail end of the 19th century...
Walsh directed a number of oaters at his peak, but none as downbeat as Pursued, a psychological drama that fused noir sensibilities to the western. Luridly Freudian, and told in flashback, it sees Robert Mitchumbattling repressed trauma and the open wounds of a family feud he played no part in. “I told you not to look backward, look ahead,” says Mi...
Ida Lupino may have taken top billing in Walsh’s 1941 proto-noir High Sierra, adapted from the novel by W.R. Burnett, but it was Humphrey Bogart whose career went stratospheric following one of his best early leads. Walsh returned to the material in 1949, this time as a western, with Joel McCrea in the lead and the earlier film’s bank job transpose...
Adapted for the screen by C.S. Forester from his own novels, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. looks at first glance like it’s set to be a spirited slice of high-seas derring-do, in the mould of a Douglas Fairbanks vehicle or Walsh’s own, subsequent Sea Devils(1953). But nothing could be further from the truth. Not that it’s necessarily lacking for a...
Walsh took to the ocean waves again with Hornblower lead Gregory Peck for this barnstorming Technicolor epic set in 1850. Peck is schooner captain and seal-hunter Jonathan Clark, one eye on the purchase of Alaska for the United States, the other on Russian countess Ann Blyth. Anthony Quinnplays the competition in work and love, the scallywag pirate...
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) “The Thief of Bagdad” is a 1924 silent film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks in the lead role. The film tells the story of a roguish thief in ancient Baghdad who falls in love with a princess and must use his cunning and bravery to win her hand and save the kingdom.
- Sadie Thompson (1928) “Sadie Thompson” is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gloria Swanson. The film tells the story of a woman named Sadie Thompson, a prostitute who arrives on a remote South Seas island and becomes the object of desire for a number of men, including a zealous missionary named Davidson.
- High Sierra (1941) “High Sierra” is a 1941 crime film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, and Arthur Kennedy. The film follows Roy Earle (Bogart), a career criminal who is released from prison on parole and recruited to lead a robbery of a California resort.
- What Price Glory (1926) “What Price Glory” is a 1926 American silent film directed by Raoul Walsh. The film is based on a play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings.
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George. Votes: 15,150.
- White Heat 1949, 114 min. Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien. Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir 3 find this movie on ►
- High Sierra 1941, 100 min. Raoul Walsh • Starring: Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart. Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Drama 4 find this movie on ►
- The Roaring Twenties 1939, 104 min. Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Jeffrey Lynn, Priscilla Lane. Crime Drama • Crime • Drama. find this movie on ►
- The Thief of Bagdad 1924, 155 min. Raoul Walsh • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston. Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy Adventure.
Raoul Walsh is somewhat of a Hollywood legend. He's one of the many highly successful, non-auteur, studio filmmakers (Michael Curtiz, Mervyn LeRoy, Lewis Milestone, Lloyd Bacon, Edward Dmytryk, et alia) that populated the American film industry during the '30s, '40s, and '50s. He isn't much talked about today, even if some of his films are. For instance, many film lovers will talk about ...
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The prolific Raoul Walsh started directing as an assistant to D.W. Griffith and had a fifty-year-long career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for his work at Warner Bros. in the forties. Works of his I might yet see include The Bowery (1933), Me and My Gal (1932), and Under Pressure (1935). ☜ Wajda ★ Book of Filmmakers ★ Watkins ☞
