White Heat

1949 • 113 minutes

About this movie

Top of the world, Ma! Oscar-winner James Cagney ("The Public Enemy," "Yankee Doodle Dandy") explodes on the screen as a demented gangster whose intricate plan to rob an oil refinery is thwarted by a government infiltrator. Co-starring Oscar-winner Edmond O'Brien ("Julius Caesar") and Virginia Mayo ("The Best Years of Our Lives"). Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time, who also added Cody Jarrett to its' list of 50 Greatest Villains. MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (c) 1949 A Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

This is cinematic perfection...Cagney is phenomenal here...he went the distance...his power never failed nor faded...not even with age. My favourite James Cagney movie.