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Length: 02:23
Posted: 7/23/2009
The trailer for White Heat.
Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) is the ruthless, deranged leader of a criminal gang. Although married to Verna (Virginia Mayo), Jarrett is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, 'Ma' Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), who is his only real confidant. When he has one of his splitting headaches she consoles him, sits him on her lap and gives him a drink with the toast "Top of the world".
Jarrett's father died in an institution. He himself is described as someone who when "he was a kid, he used to fake headaches to get his mother's attention away from the rest of the family. It worked. As he grew up, the fancied headaches became real, until now they tear him to pieces."
Jarrett and his gang carry out a major robbery involving the hijacking of a train and the deaths of up to five people, including four members of the train crew and one of his own accomplices, Zuckie (Ford Rainey). With the help of informants, the police soon close in and Jarrett shoo watch
Pastor Pile (Walter Brennan) is interrupted as Alvin (Gary Cooper) and ruffian pals shoot up the prayer meeting, distressing Mother York (Margaret Wycherly) in an early scene from Sergeant York, 1941. watch
