White Heat (1949) - (Movie Clip) Red Hot Buzz Saw
The first "domestic" scene, featuring Cody (James Cagney) and Ed (Steve Cochran) and introducing Ma (Margaret Wycherly) and Verna (Virginia Mayo) and foreshadowing troubles, in Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.
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White Heat - (Original Trailer)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic in White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien.
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White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Changing Engineers
Cody (James Cagney) and the gang (Mickey Knox, Ford Rainey et al) in the car, Big Ed (Steve Cochran) on the train, in the neatly shot "tunnel job" sequence opening Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.
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White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) She's Dead
In the prison mess-hall, word comes to gangster Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) that his mother has passed, in a famous scene from Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.
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White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) That Sound Funny To You?
Deep cover cop Pardo (Edmond O'Brien) gets caught by his gangster boss Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) trying to sneak away from the hide-out, who then recalls his dead mother, in Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.
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White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Ruins The Movies
From hot pursuit, Cody (James Cagney), Ma (Margaret Wycherly) and Verna (Virginia Mayo) pull into the Drive-In, director Raoul Walsh having a joke, in White Heat, 1949.
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White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Take Your Shots
Pardo (Edmond O'Brien), sent to solitary for refusing his vaccinations, is the topic for Cody (James Cagney) and cell-mates, who don't know he's an under-cover operative, in Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.