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Movie Overview
Cast
• James Cagney
• Virginia Mayo
• Edmond O'Brien
Director
• Raoul Walsh
White Heat (1949)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4/5
"If you're looking for Cagney's best gangster role ever, you got it right here, on the top of the world."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

B-
"A very entertaining classic gangster film from the 1940s."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"White Heat’s ultimate message: love’s a *****…even crypto-incestuous love."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

8/10
"White Heat is vigorous and uncompromising. Cagney is all kinetic energy and raw nerve."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

"Film noir masterpiece, with brilliant direction and visual style"  Classic Film and Television  Michael E. Grost

4/5
"Cagney is a force of nature in this movie, alternately frightening and pathetic."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

B+
"Cagney supercharges the entire film with frenetic energy."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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