WHITE HEAT (1949)

RAOUL WALSH

Classics Gangster/Mob Robberies, Burglaries & Heists Insanity Recommended

Cast

JAMES CAGNEY VIRGINIA MAYO EDMOND O'BRIEN FRED CLARK MAX STEINER

Plot

Superbly edgy gangster movie with Cagney on top form as the mother-fixated hoodlum who confesses to a robbery to avoid paying the price for the murders he really did commit. But when news reaches his cell that his beloved Ma is dead, his already flaky mind becomes totally, and fatally, unhinged.