White Heat (1949)
Directed by Raoul
Walsh this film stars James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien,
Margaret Wycherly and Steve Cochran. The leader of a criminal gang
goes to prison and gets an undercover police officer for a cellmate.
Despite this film
having a huge reputation I found it to be one of the more average of
it's genre. There is plenty of action and drama but this feels very
much like a film of it's era, especially in Cagney's performance of
his character's psychotic episodes. It could be that gangster films
rarely do much for me but I found this film to be a disappointment
for such a “classic”.
3/5
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