1949—Raoul Walsh, director—starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo
In 1949, after seven years away from the studio, James Cagney returned to Warner Brothers, and to the gangster genre which had always been one of their specialties, to make White Heat—which was aptly described as “the acme of the gangster-prison film” by New York Times critic Bosley Crowther. Cagney, surpassing his performances in The Public Enemy and The Roaring Twenties, is nothing less than sensational as a psychotic, mother-fixated criminal. The same can be said of Margaret Wycherly as the mother, a character suggested by the historic Ma Barker and her four criminal sons. “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”
Genre: Gangster
Run Time: 114 Min.
Language: English
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