TITLE...........: White Heat (1949)
STARS...........: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
DIRECTOR........: Raoul Walsh
WRITERS.........: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
METASCORE.......: 89
TOMATOMETER.....: 97/93
IMDB SCORE......: 8.1
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042041
RUNTIME.........: 1h 53mn
SIZE............: 7.36 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by professor Dr. Drew Casper
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, FRE, GER, POR-BRA, SPA-CAS, SPA-LAT
SOURCE..........: Warner Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-03-13


In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best bad-guy portrayal. The star plays criminal mastermind Cody Jarrett, a mother-dominated psychotic who dreams of being on "top of the world." Inadvertently leaving clues behind after a railroad heist, Jarrett becomes the target of the feds, who send an undercover agent (played by Edmond O'Brien) to infiltrate the Jarrett gang. While Jarrett sits in prison on a deliberately trumped-up charge (he confesses to one crime to provide himself an alibi for the railroad robbery), he befriends O'Brien, who poses as a hero-worshipping hood who's always wanted to work with Jarrett. Busting out of prison with O'Brien, Jarrett regroups his gang to mastermind a "Trojan horse" armored-car robbery.


Extras

• Commentary by professor Dr. Drew Casper
• Introduction by Leonard Maltin
• Merrie Melodies - Homeless Hare
• White Heat - Top of the World
• Newsreel
• The Fountainhead Trailer
• Trailer