Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics $49.99 (Blu-ray), Warner ... Raoul Walsh's "White Heat" (1949), last of the great Warner Bros. gangster films, opens and closes with a heist. Cagney plays ...

James Cagney gives an electrifying performance as a psychotic and paranoiac mama’s boy in White Heat. The 1949 film is undoubtedly one of the most terrifying and violent crime films ever made.

James Cagney can be the bad guy you root for ("Angels With Dirty Faces") or the bad guy you love to hate ("White Heat"), but even as an outright hero, he's a bit of a devil ("G Men"). In two 1930s ...

When James Cagney played bugged-out gangster Cody Jarrett in the 1949 crime picture White Heat, it wasn’t exactly a change of pace for an actor who rose to prominence in charismatic tough-guy roles.