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White Heat
A pGang leader Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) lives for his mother, planning heists between horrible headaches. 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.
August 14, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 October 1897, Peoria, Illinois, USA
5 December 1906, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 July 1902, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
6 June 1894, Ireland
August 8, 1892 in Eureka, California, USA
5 May 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 February 1919, Alabama, USA
March 21, 2005
Cagney gives an utterly ferocious performance, arguably his finest, as Cody Jarrett, a psychotic gangster with an unholy mother fixation.
May 20, 2003
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.
April 27, 2009
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.
April 05, 2006
Its archetypal influence on later films like Goodfellas and the Al Pacino Scarface is striking, even if we can never again experience how new and bold it was back in its day....
April 27, 2009
Raoul Walsh's heroes had a knack for going too far, but none went further than James Cagney in this roaring 1949 gangster piece.
November 22, 2005
Cagney, intenso como de hábito, cria um personagem que, apesar de sua óbvia instabilidade psicológica e de sua crueldade patológica, conquista o espectador com sua carência emocional.
April 27, 2009
Magnificent examination of the criminal mind and Cagney's finest moment.
August 14, 2005
Raoul Walsh's Freudian film is one of the fastest and toughest crime-gangster films ever made, boasting a bravura performance from James Cagney as a misogynist mama boy ("top of the world, Ma").
January 26, 2006
Despite chronology (deranged by the censor's influence on the studios), this is really the fitting climax of the '30s gangster movie.
May 28, 2005
Film noir masterpiece, with brilliant direction and visual style
October 09, 2008
Cagney supercharges the entire film with frenetic energy.
April 27, 2009
Cagney has an excellent supporting cast.
