White Heat

White Heat is a crime film starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien and featuring Margaret Wycherly, and Steve Cochran. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts screenplay based on a story by Virginia...

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...writers, Warners saw them as action men and assigned them to rewrite another script, a gangster story called White Heat (1949). White Heat was based on a story submitted to the studio by Virginia Kellogg, which had been inspired by a...

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...directions. Mayo had the stars aligned in '49 when she also played the definitive gang moll in Walsh's James Cagney masterpiece White Heat. ALSO NEW ON DVD Depressing beneath the surface and only a fair time-killer, March's...

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...to discuss with his partner where they'll dine, or shoving a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face, Cagney is magnificently amoral. See him also in The Roaring Twenties (1939) and the extraordinary White Heat (1949), both directed by Raoul Walsh.

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...political satire; twisted sex; noir-ish vigilantism spurred by superhero angst; and prison-pic violence that makes James Cagney's White Heat look tame (if hardly a lesser movie). Running three hours and change, this version adds 24...

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...among the regulars. Daniel Adams ("The Golden Boys") has written the screenplay and will direct. Edelman produced such films as "White Heat" (1949) and "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942) as well as such TV series as "The Life and Legend...

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...Gilmore of Capitoline Global Finance, Anthony Gudas of Tax Credit Finance and Scot Butcher are financing. Edelman produced such films as "White Heat" (1949) and "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942) as well as such TV series as "The Life and...

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...many genres, Cagney is best remembered for gritty crime films like "Public Enemy" (1931), "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938), "Roaring Twenties" (1939) and "White Heat" (1949). Some more crime-spree-thieving-bandit films from great directors:

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...in the late 1940s - thanks in part to the anti-Communism sentiment of the day - into the gangster-as-psycho film (think James Cagney in "White Heat"). The not-so-subtle message was that we're not going to glorify such antisocial behavior.

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James Cagney, White Heat | Clint Eastwood: 12 Key Influences on My Life in Movies | Photos | EW.com Home // Movies // Clint Eastwood: 12 Key Influences on My Life in Movies The actor/director talks about his work, passions, and friendships,...

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