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White Heat
Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Not Rated
1949
1h 54m
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8.1
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A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
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Cast of White Heat
James Cagney
Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett
Virginia Mayo
Verna Jarrett
Edmond O'Brien
Vic Pardo
Margaret Wycherly
Ma Jarrett
Steve Cochran
'Big Ed' Somers
John Archer
Philip Evans
Wally Cassell
'Cotton' Valletti
Fred Clark
Daniel Winston
Paul Guilfoyle
Roy Parker (uncredited)
Ford Rainey
Zuckie
Robert Foulk
Payroll Guard at Chemical Plant
Ian MacDonald
Creel
Robert Osterloh
Ryley
Joel Allen
Operative (uncredited)
Claudia Barrett
Cashier (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
Guard (uncredited)
Marshall Bradford
Chief of Police (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Convict (uncredited)
John Butler
Motorist at Gas Station (uncredited)
Robert Carson
Agent at Directional Map (uncredited)
White Heat Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
James Cagney gives an astounding, realistic, terrific portrayal of a gangster as menacing and as ruthless as any ever played on the screen as the star of White Heat.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
White Heat, made by Warners, under Raoul Walsh's direction and suggested by a Virginia Kellogg story, is a highly exciting cops and robbers melodrama. One scene of violence follows another, until the thrilling climax.
Miami Herald
George Bourke
This is taut, high-powered drama, with trigger-quick action following an adroitly drawn, if melodramatic, suspense pattern.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
Here's a taut crime melodrama, with punch and pace, which is very, likely to start a whole new cycle of such pictures... it looks like Director Raoul Walsh and the practiced Mr. Cagney have put the public enemy back in business again.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
A rousing reminder of the gory old gangster period (celluloid variety) in which Jimmy and his bosses gave fans their money's worth of chills and excitement.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
White Heat is cunningly tooled for maximum shock effect.
Washington Post
Orval Hopkins
Cagney aside (which isn't so easy, since he's the star of this movie), [White Heat is engrossing and at times exciting. I found particularly interesting the use made of electronics by the Los Angeles cops in tracking criminals.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Warner Brothers weren't kidding when they put the title "White Heat" on the new James Cagney picture... For 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.
Variety
Joseph P. Kahn
The tight-lipped scowl, the hunched shoulders that rear themselves for the kill, the gargoyle speech, the belching gunfire of a trigger-happy paranoiac... these are the standard and still-popular ingredients that constitute the James Cagney of White Heat.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Clarissa Start
Margaret Wycherly steals the honors as Ma Jarrett. Of greatest interest are the complicated devices and crime-solving techniques which can locate a car, tail it unsuspectedly, and nab the evildoers all by electronics.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Gita Packer
This is crime melodrama at its best- -- a train robbery a prison break, and the holdup of a chemical plant, complete with explosions and police.
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
White Heat scorches with action in which Cagney and Miss Wycherly make searing impressions.
Newsweek
Newsweek Staff
It wasn't quite so likely that White Heat would turn out to be as surcharged with excitement as the gangster films of the early '30s and that Cagney's realization of a psychopathic killer would surpass in realism and intensity anything he has ever done.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It's so primitive and outrageous in its flamboyance that it seems to have been made much earlier than it was. But this flamboyance is also what makes some of its scenes stay with you.
Orlando Sentinel
Crosby Day
James Cagney gives an electrifying performance as a psychotic and paranoiac-mama's boy in White Heat. The 1949 film is undoubtedly one of the most terrifying and violent crime films ever made.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A gangster classic.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Raoul Walsh's heroes had a knack for going too far, but none went further than James Cagney in this roaring 1949 gangster piece.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
White Heat's ultimate message: love's a *****...even crypto-incestuous love.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Perhaps the roughest of the classic gangster movies, with a climax that almost blows the theater down.
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