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Plot Summary
Academy Award winner James Cagney delivers a tour-de-force performance as a murderously psychotic criminal mastermind with an overpowering mother complex in the crime thriller White Heat. While in prison, Cody Jarrett (Cagney) befriends an undercover cop (Edmund O'Brien) posing as a young thug--appearing to idolize the hard-bitten gangster who suffers from semi-epileptic seizures, outbursts of frightening violence and an almost incestuous attachment to his mother. Released from prison, Jarrett plots a seemingly perfect heist, unaware that his partners plan to kill him and his right-hand man is working for the police. Cornered, Jarrett chooses to go out in an explosive act of self-immolation rather than surrender in this classic of the gangster genre.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
100%- Reviews Counted: 28
- Fresh: 28
- Rotten: 0
- Average Rating: 8.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: The simple fact is that Mr. Cagney has made his return to a gangster role in one of the most explosive pictures that he or anyone has ever played.
Fresh: Brilliantly directed by Raoul Walsh, an old master of cinema hoodlumism, it returns a more subtle James Cagney to the kind of thug role that made him famous.
Fresh: Cagney has an excellent supporting cast.
Fresh: Raoul Walsh's heroes had a knack for going too far, but none went further than James Cagney in this roaring 1949 gangster piece.
Customer Reviews
CLASSIC
"top of the world ma" *KA-BOOM*
a must have for any fan of motion pictures.
White Heat
Cagney at his best!
Oldies
One of the best
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- $17.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1949
- © 1949 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.