FM-W001-1949

White Heat

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Made it, Ma! Top of the world! With the cops closing in, Cody Jarrett stands alone atop a refinery storage tank and blasts himself into movie history. In one of his best-remembered performances, James Cagney protrays Jarrett, a vicious criminal ruled by impulse and an unhealthy devotion to his hard-boilded ma. After a murderous railroad heist, Jarrett confesses to a lesser charge and is put in jail. But prison can`t hold him, and together with a fellow immate who really an undercover agent (Edmond O` Brien), Jarrett escapes and rejoins his mob to plan the robbery of a refinery payroll. The heist begins....yet it the beginning of the end of Jarrett.Directed by Raoul Walsh and filled with one great sequence after another, White Heat is a gritty, ""***1/2 (Leonard Maltin) police action thriller and a harrowing psychological portrait. Director: Raoul Walsh. Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmund O` Brien, Fred Clark. Black and white. Country: US. Subject: Criminal, murder, jail.