White Heat (1949)

Directors

Raoul Walsh

Cast

James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark

The story

In California, psychotic criminal Arthur "Cody" Jarrett leads the ruthless Jarrett gang alongside his wife Verna, his beloved mother "Ma" Jarrett, and his right-hand man "Big Ed" Somers. During a robbery of a mail train in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the gang kills four train crewmen, but a gangster is severely scalded by steam. While on the lam, Cody has a severe migraine, through which Ma nurses him; afterward, Ma and Cody have a quick drink and make a toast, "Top of the world!", before rejoining the others.

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