White Heat

White Heat

Cagney (who is becoming one of my all time faves) is a gangster (surprise!) and he is causing havoc on society. The cops are after him, and this is the first movie that actually shows you how they investigate. How they tail a suspect etc.

Cagney’s mom (not his real mom, his mom in the film) is the only person he loves and trusts. She is part of the gang and looks out for him. Cagney pulls a big time train robbery and the cops are getting close to him…he has a plan, the same day as the heist there was a small time robbery at a hotel in another state. He planned that job, but someone else pulled it off.

Cagney plans on confessing in that state to that smaller crime, so that he goes away for a couple of years – thus proving he didn’t commit the train robbery cause he was convicted of a crime that occurred that same day in another state! BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!

That is just one example of this movies writing!!!!!!!! Not only that, but the real story begins when the cops use an undercover officer and “convict” him of a crime so that he ends up in the same cell as Cagney. This guy has to gain his trust, not an easy thing to do, when Cagney would willing sacrifice his own guys!

What a great film this was. You should all own it.

5/5

--J-KraKen--[>