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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.
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, USA
July 1, 1895 in Massachusetts, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
14 December 1909, New York, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
November 7, 1919 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
March 21, 1895 in Portland, Oregon, USA
1 June 1900, Manhattan, New York, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
25 May 1917, Eureka, California, USA
28 June 1914, Great Falls, Montana, USA
31 May 1918, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
5 May 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 October 1897, Peoria, Illinois, USA
January 12, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 September 1904, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
13 May 1905, New York City, New York, USA
4 December 1888, Dublin, Ireland
22 May 1917, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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....
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").
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.
March 21, 2005
Cagney gives an utterly ferocious performance, arguably his finest, as Cody Jarrett, a psychotic gangster with an unholy mother fixation.
October 09, 2008
Cagney supercharges the entire film with frenetic energy.
May 28, 2005
Film noir masterpiece, with brilliant direction and visual style
April 27, 2009
Cagney has an excellent supporting cast.
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.
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.
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.
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.