“White Heat” is a film noir crime drama where James Cagney plays a ruthless psychotic criminal and leader of a gang. Director Raoul Walsh (“Cheyenne” 1947) put together what is recognized as one of the best gangster films of all time with excellent production values, outstanding character development, great performances, and wonderful writing by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, from a story by Virginia Kellogg. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story.
The cast delivered in the aforementioned performance department, including James Cagney as Cody Jarrett, Virginia Mayo as his wife, Edmund O’Brien and John Archer as Treasury Department agents, Margaret Wycherly as Ma Jarrett, and Steve Cochran, Wally Cassell, and Fred Clark as Jarrett’s associates. The very watchable black-and-white noir “White Heat” was a hit at the box office for Warner Bros. Pictures.
White Heat (1949)
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My Review
“White Heat” is a film noir crime drama where James Cagney plays a ruthless psychotic criminal and leader of a gang. Director Raoul Walsh (“Cheyenne” 1947) put together what is recognized as one of the best gangster films of all time with excellent production values, outstanding character development, great performances, and wonderful writing by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, from a story by Virginia Kellogg. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story.
The cast delivered in the aforementioned performance department, including James Cagney as Cody Jarrett, Virginia Mayo as his wife, Edmund O’Brien and John Archer as Treasury Department agents, Margaret Wycherly as Ma Jarrett, and Steve Cochran, Wally Cassell, and Fred Clark as Jarrett’s associates. The very watchable black-and-white noir “White Heat” was a hit at the box office for Warner Bros. Pictures.