Thursday, April 15, 2010

White Heat (1949)

Directed by Raoul Walsh
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)

Cagney and his gang, including his mom, go on the lam after robbing a train. He cooks up an idea to confess to another crime to avoid doing a longer stretch. On the inside, he is befriended by an undercover cop, and together they stage a breakout. The police chase them to a chemical plant, where Cagney goes out in style "on top of the world". His mother fixation would do Hitchcock proud.



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