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White Heat |
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Genre
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Crime,
Gangster Film,
Crime Thriller.
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Year
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1949 |
Director
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Raoul Walsh.
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Actors
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James Cagney,
Virginia Mayo,
Edmond O'Brien,
Steve Cochran,
Margaret Wycherly,
John Archer,
Wally Cassell,
Mickey Knox,
Ian MacDonald,
Fred Clark,
G. Pat Collins,
Paul Guilfoyle,
Fred Coby,
Ford Rainey,
Robert Osterloh,
Joel Allen,
Claudia Barrett,
Ray Bennett,
Marshall Bradford,
John Butler,
Bob Carson,
Leo Cleary,
Garrett Craig,
Fern Eggen,
Hank Fallon,
Art Foster,
Eddie Foster,
Robert Foulk,
Buddy Gorman,
Sherry Hall,
Carl Harbaugh,
Perry Ivins,
Harry Lauter,
Nolan Leary,
Murray Leonard,
Larry McGrath,
John McGuire,
Sid Melton,
Arthur Miles,
Ray Montgomery,
Milton Parsons,
Lee Phelps,
Eddie Phillips,
John M. Pickard,
Joey Ray,
Grandon Rhodes,
George Spaulding,
Harry Strang,
George Taylor,
Jim Thorpe,
Jim Toney,
Jack Worth.
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File
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Runtime: |
114:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip |
Size: |
665.86 Mb |
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Storyline:
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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