White Heat
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- Critics Consensus 97%
- HD
- CC
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- Drama
- 1 Hour 53 Minutes
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4.7 • 31 Ratings
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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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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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- Rent $2.99
- Buy $9.99
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Ratings and Reviews
Critics Consensus: Raoul Walsh's crime drama goes further into the psychology of a gangster than most fear to tread and James Cagney's portrayal of the tragic anti-hero is constantly volatile.
Cast & Crew
- Cast
- James Cagney
- Virginia Mayo
- Edmond O'Brien
- Margaret Wycherly
- Steve Cochran
- John Archer
- Wally Cassell
- Fred Clark
- Director
- Raoul Walsh
- Screenwriter
- Ivan Goff
- Ben Roberts
Information
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
- Genre
- Drama
- Released
- Copyright
- © 1949 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Languages
- Primary
- English (Stereo)
Accessibility
- CC
- Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.