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| White Heat |
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| Director: Raoul Walsh, Richard L. Bare |
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Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts |
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Louis F. Edelman |
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James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 |
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(NTSC ) |
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English, Spanish, French |
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Black and White |
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| Studio: Warner Home Video |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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NR |
| DVD Release: Jan 2005 |
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Discs: 1 (Cloud) [] |
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| Reviews: 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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