White Heat (1949)

With this episode we bid farewell to March’s noir theme we’ve dubbed THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. We’ve discussed 21 classic film noir and a few more if you include episodes from months back. We love some crime movies and our final film discussion is a feature that feels like a culmination of a veteran leading man that has devoted so much of his career to playing dangerous men. We’re talking about Raoul Walsh’s 1949 classic “WHITE HEAT” starring the great James Cagney as Cody Jarrett, the ultimate criminal psychopath. It also stars Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien & Margaret Wycherly. Probably our most brutal and violent film all month and its influences on modern gangster films is very apparent. It’s also one of those oft quoted movies in which the quote is somewhat mis-quoted kinda like “Sunset Blvd.”. Our last classic noir discussion its worth your time and we found a quality version of it at this link: https://archive.org/details/white-heat-1949_202311 We’re saying goodbye to noir, for now, and next week we return to an early topic to reevaluate some comedies that didn’t blow up the box office but how do they fair critically after all these years?

 

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