Toward the end of WHITE HEAT,
mama's boy + psychopath Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) makes one one of
the great - and most explosive - exits in all of film noirdom. One of
the great exit lines, too: 'TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!" This rapid-paced
prison breakout movie is basically a B movie with a couple of great A
movie performances by Cagney and the underrated Virginia Mayo. Watch for
“Ouch!” scene when Cagney kicks the chair she's perched on right out
from under her - and another, when he empties his rod to ventilate both a
car trunk and the hoodlum locked inside, while munching on a fried
chicken leg.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
WHITE HEAT (1949)
Cagney goes out with a bang
Toward the end of WHITE HEAT,
mama's boy + psychopath Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) makes one one of
the great - and most explosive - exits in all of film noirdom. One of
the great exit lines, too: 'TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!" This rapid-paced
prison breakout movie is basically a B movie with a couple of great A
movie performances by Cagney and the underrated Virginia Mayo. Watch for
“Ouch!” scene when Cagney kicks the chair she's perched on right out
from under her - and another, when he empties his rod to ventilate both a
car trunk and the hoodlum locked inside, while munching on a fried
chicken leg.
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