![]() ![]() My question to you is : How many movies from '40s have you seen? How wooden was the acting in those days? The answer - extremely. James Cagney - perhaps his greatest performance ever! I see that some fools criticize his performance,saying that it isn't great at all. Cagneys character in this movie is larger than life, one of the greatest gangster characters of all time. The script is just great,the score is excellent and dialog is amazing!!! (try comparing it with the standards of today) Every third sentence coming out of Cody Jarretts mouth is endlessly quotable, this movie is Scarface of its time. Many would disagree but frankly who cares? None of the modern gangster flicks would be the same without existence of this movie, thats for sure. It is as simple as that! This movie is made in 1949 and today,almost 55 years later, it still holds up and is up there with the best gangster dramas of all time. VirginiaMayoandJamesCagneyinWhiteHeattrailer.jpg (314 ×. ![]() Alfred Hitchcock once said that you need three things in order to make a good movie : good script, good script and good script! This is a perfect example of that statement. File:Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in White Heat trailer.jpg. He outsmarts the law for a time then is killed.They sure don't make them like this any more! Blessed with a touch of genius. Jimmy gets pushing around from Ward Bond, crooked detective, in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.” Jimmy weds Helena Carter, cast as daughter of multi-millionaire in action-packed film. He escapes from prison farm, leads hectic life of crime. Jimmy and Steve Brodie in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,” a Cagney production.Īs Ralph Cotter, Jimmy's college professor gone wrong. ![]() Their pleas were soon answered, for “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,” Jimmy’s latest melodrama, has all of the stirring ingredients that made “White Heat” and other Cagney classics surefire entertainment. Jimmy’s kids, Katherine and James, Jr., know their father as a tolerant, easy-going guy who’s a farmer boy at heart.Īfter watching Jimmy Cagney be his exciting, ruthless self again in the recent “White Heat,” movie-goers begged for another such thriller, with the lovably contemptible guy, before too long a wait. Virginia Mayo, his wife in “White Heat,” double-crosses Jimmy, but charms him into sparing her when he kills her lover. He’s the same taut, cocky Cagney, piling up thrill on top of thrill in his return to infamy and leaving fans in the same “White Heat” as the film.Įven in rehearsal James Cagney, with Director Raoul Walsh and Fred Coby, does his scenes like an aggressive hornet. Jimmy’s warped, but slick, and has a plan for evading arrest for murders committed during a train robbery, which goes awry when an equally slick T-man manages to join the gang. In Warners’ “White Heat,” Jimmy’s a ruthless gang leader with a progressive brain disorder, who slaps Virginia Mayo around with relish, and leaves a member of his gang to die as casually as a rubbish man discards his day’s haul. The king of the tough boys is back, the killer with the coldest eye and the itchiest trigger finger in the Hollywood homicide racket, James Cagney. ![]() Cagney is terrifically chilling, Virginia Mayo, as his mercenary spouse is perfect, and Margaret Wycherly as the mother is great. O’Brien amasses all the necessary evidence but when Cagney learns that he’s a T-Man, you start wondering how nerve-wracking can situations be. The death of his mother causes Cagney to go berserk. The more lighthearted The West Point Story (1950), an all-star musical Virginia Mayo, James Cagney, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson that. Wise to his game, the T-Men plant agent Edmond O’Brien in Cagney’s cell as a brother convict. If caught, Cagney faces a murder charge, so he confesses to a small crime committed hundreds of miles away and at the same time the train hold-up was pulled. After Cagney and his gang hold up a train and make off with 300,000 in currency, their perfect crime starts falling apart when the Treasury men find a dead man and tie him to the robbery and Cagney’s mob. Movie Review - White Heat (Modern Screen, 1948)īrutal melodrama starring James Cagney as a homicidal psychopath with a mother fixation.Ī gang leader and murderer of long standing, Cagney’s only decent feelings are for his mother, Margaret Wycherly, who has aided and abetted his crime career. ![]()
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