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Overview

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Director:

Raoul Walsh

Writers:

Ivan Goff (screenplay) and
Ben Roberts (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

1952 (Austria) more

Genre:

Action | Crime | Film-Noir more

Tagline:

James Cagney Is Red Hot In "White Heat"! more

Plot:

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn full summary | full synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more

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(7 articles)

AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
 (From Extra. 4 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)

A Gangster's Demise: Jarrett vs. Rico vs. Dillinger
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 3 July 2009, 4:53 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

They don't make 'em like this anymore more (106 total)

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Sat. Nov. 1410:00 AMTCM   


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Additional Details

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | UK:15 | West Germany:16 (nf) | Sweden:15 (re-rating) (1962) | Sweden:(Banned) (original rating) (1949) | Canada:PG (video rating) | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1950) | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) (2004) | USA:Approved (PCA #13852) | Australia:M (DVD rating)


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Trivia:

The train robbery was filmed using the former Southern Pacific tunnel in Chatsworth, CA. The Line is now owned by Union Pacific and was the location of a tragic 2008 head-on collision that killed 25 people. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The gas station attendant removes the radiator cap with his bare hand. more

Quotes:

Cody Jarrett: Big Ed, Great... Big... Ed. Know why they call him that? Because his ideas are big. Someday he's gonna get a really big one, about me. It'll be his last. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003) (TV) more

Soundtrack:

Five O'Clock Whistle more


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67 out of 93 people found the following comment useful.
They don't make 'em like this anymore, 12 September 1998
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Author: BrianV from Calfiornia, USA

The old saying, "They don't make 'em like they used to" fits this film to a T. Every other crazed-killer-goes-on-a-rampage movie ever made pales next to it. This is the best performance of Cagney's career (although, astoundingly enough, he didn't think much of the picture or his work in it, dismissing it as "just another gangster flicker"). Only Cagney could take a character like Cody Jarrett, a snarling, murderous monster with a mother fixation--someone you KNOW is going to get his at the end--and still almost make you wish he gets away. The film is one taut nerve from beginning to end. There's not a wasted moment in it; it starts out at full blast with the daring robbery of a mail train barreling through a mountain pass and doesn't let up. Performances are universally top-notch, from the stars on down to the extras. Far and away the finest film of director Raoul Walsh's long and distinguished career, this movie can take its place as not only the best gangster film ever made, but as one of the best films ever made, period.

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