{"id":17591,"date":"2025-06-14T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2025-06-11T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:43:50","slug":"white-heat-1949-raoul-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17591","title":{"rendered":"White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cagney and his dimwitted men rob a train and kill a lotta guys then hide out, but boring cop John Archer (<em>Destination Moon<\/em>) and his men are closing in, so Cagney confesses to a different, non-fatal job as an alibi for the train heist and goes to jail for a little while.  &#8220;A very good friend of mine&#8230; me!&#8221; sounds like an Odenkirk line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/whiteheat2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/whiteheat6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The cops want more on Cagney so they send Large-faced Eddie &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/373\">Rock Around the Rockpile<\/a>&#8221; O&#8217;Brien to jail as a mole to gain his trust.  Rivalries in jail then prison break, while outside Big Ed steals his girl Virgino Mayo (Walsh&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15537\">Colorado Territory<\/a><\/em> the same year) and they kill Cagney&#8217;s beloved Ma (Margaret Wycherly, fake mystic of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16053\">The Thirteenth Chair<\/a><\/em>).  This is the movie where Cagney is a mother-obsessed seizure-prone psychopath, but I don&#8217;t find him any more psychotic than most movie gangsters.  The cops track him to the next job with newfangled radio equipment &#8211; trapped in a burning building he&#8217;s made it, ma, top of the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/whiteheat3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/whiteheat4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/whiteheat5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cagney and his dimwitted men rob a train and kill a lotta guys then hide out, but boring cop John Archer (Destination Moon) and his men are closing in, so Cagney confesses to a different, non-fatal job as an alibi for the train heist and goes to jail for a little while. &#8220;A very good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1243,2820,1519,247,1691,294,2623],"class_list":["post-17591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-gangsters","tag-heist","tag-james-cagney","tag-prison","tag-raoul-walsh","tag-trains","tag-virginia-mayo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17639,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}