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* PunkInTheTrunk: When Cody busts out of prison, he takes Parker (the con who tried to kill him for Big Ed) and makes him get in the trunk of the escape car. Later, he asks Parker how he's feeling in there, and when the latter complains of stuffiness, gives him "a little air" by riddling the trunk with bullet holes.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Cody is one at times.
-->'''Verna:''' Cody, my radio ain't workin' again.
-->'''Cody:''' Oh, no. What do you want for it, unemployment insurance?
-->'''Verna:''' Cody, my radio ain't workin' again.
-->'''Cody:''' Oh, no. What do you want for it, unemployment insurance?
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* PrettyInMink: Verna dons a fur coat in one or two scenes.
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* AwardSnub: Seriously, Cagney didn't even get ''nominated'' for Best Actor that year?
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* TrainJob: The film begins with Cody and his gang rob robbing a train.
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* KarmaHoudini: Verna, sort of. While she's in the custody of the police at the end of the film, she'll likely just get charged as an accessory and will almost certainly get off with a light sentence. Big Ed was the only one who knew she murdered Ma Jarrett, and he's dead.
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* WhyWontYouDie: After hitting Cody a couple of times with a scary-looking sniper rifle, an astonished Hank says "What's holding him up?" as Cody continues to stumble around the gas storage tank.
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: Cody confesses to some penny-ante hotel robbery in order to avoid punishment for the train robbery, which would have gotten him the death penalty after four people were killed.
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* IncrediblyObviousTail: The cops following Ma Jarrett aren't that subtle.
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* SignatureLine: The page quote.
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'''''White Heat''''' is a 1949 Creator/WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Creator/JamesCagney. Cagney is Cody Jarrett, the violent and emotionally unstable gang leader who [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas still has a soft spot for his Ma.]] After pulling off a train heist, he gets arrested and convicted for a robbery he didn't commit (as part of an alibi he'd previously arranged). Waiting in prison until the heat is off, he's worried about Big Ed, his second-in-command, taking control of his gang and his (unfaithful) wife. When he hears Ed has killed his mom, an enraged Cody busts out, determined to rub out Ed and regain control of the gang.
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* ActionPrologue: The film opens with the Jarrett Gang robbing a train.
* AxCrazy:CodyCody. Cagney had played tough guys and bad guys throughout TheThirties, but the violently unhinged Cody Jarrett was a new wrinkle for him.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Cody develops one for "Vic", all the way to the point of being willing to share the loot fifty-fity with him.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Cody develops one for "Vic", all the way to the point of being willing to share the loot fifty-fity with him. In fact, "Vic" seems to be taking the place of Cody's beloved mother in Cody's heart.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: This is how Cody and his gang tote around the money from the train robbery.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: This is how Cody and his gang tote around the money from the train robbery.
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* ClimbingClimax: Cody climbs up a gas storage tower to escape the police and [[spoiler:make his last stand.]]
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* ClimbingClimax: Cody climbs up a gas storage tower to escape the police and [[spoiler:make make his last stand.]]
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*DeathIsDramaticDeathIsDramatic: Going up in a giant fireball when an enormous gas storage tank explodes? Not too shabby.
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* DramaticIrony: The prison has evaluated Cody as completely nuts. The van to take him to the insane asylum has arrived. The psychiatrist says "you wouldn't mind a little trip, would you?" to Cody--but the audience knows that Cody is going to break out of jail, which he promptly does.
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* EvilOldFolks: Ma Jarrett.
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* EvilOldFolks: Ma Jarrett.Jarrett, who is a crook just like Cody. Possibly inspired by Ma Barker of the Barker Gang.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Cody.
* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed.
* HairTriggerTemper: Cody.
* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed.
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* GetIntoJailFree
{{Foreshadowing}}: The cops have a little talk about how to use triangulation to get a fix on a radio signal, and one of the cops says that you can build a radio beacon out of a regular old radio. Later in the film, Hank does just that, allowing the police to trace Cody and his gang to the gas works.
* GetIntoJailFree: Hank Fallon does this regularly, and in the movie does it to gain the confidence of Cody Jarrett.
* GigglingVillain: Cody graduates from SlasherSmile to this during the violent climax. It is unsettling.
* HairTriggerTemper:Cody.
Cody flips out at the mildest of provocations.
* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed. Cody later does this to a bad guy who tries to surrender to the cops.
* GetIntoJailFree: Hank Fallon does this regularly, and in the movie does it to gain the confidence of Cody Jarrett.
* GigglingVillain: Cody graduates from SlasherSmile to this during the violent climax. It is unsettling.
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* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed. Cody later does this to a bad guy who tries to surrender to the cops.
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* KarmaHoudini: By the standards of audiences today, Verna being arrested seems like a mild punishment. [[ValuesDissonance Back then,]] it was a bit of a shock for audiences to see a beautiful woman behaving like a gangster ''at all'', so her punishment seemed very harsh.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How Cody dies in the explosion at the end.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ma Jarret is described as the "prop" that holds Cody up. Fallon sets himself up as her replacement to gain Cody's trust and keep him from going off the deep end.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How Cody dies in the explosion at the end.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ma Jarret is described as the "prop" that holds Cody up. Fallon sets himself up as her replacement to gain Cody's trust and keep him from going off the deep end.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Ma Jarret Jarrett is completely devoted to Cody.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Cody, again.again, who wants nothing more than to cuddle up with Ma when he has one of his migraine attacks.
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* StuffBlowingUpResignationsNotAccepted: When Cody and his last {{Mook}} are surrounded by the cops, the Mook tries to come out and surrender. Cody shoots him.
* SlasherSmile: Cody habitually flashes these. He seems to really enjoy killing people.
* StuffBlowingUp: Gas refinery plant. Shootout. Boom.
* SlasherSmile: Cody habitually flashes these. He seems to really enjoy killing people.
* StuffBlowingUp: Gas refinery plant. Shootout. Boom.
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* TrainJob: Cody and his gang rob a train.
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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ma Jarret is described as the "prop" that holds Cody up. Fallon sets himself up as her replacement to gain Cody's trust and keep him from going off the deep end.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Ma Jarret is completely devoted to Cody.
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* InTheBlood: Cody's father died in an insane asylum.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Cody develops one for Vic, all the way to the point of being willing to share the loot fifty-fity with him.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Before Fallon goes undercover in the prison as "Pardo" it's established that another inmate, Bo Creel, knows him by sight. This proves significant later on...in ''two'' different scenes.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Before Fallon goes undercover in the prison as "Pardo" it's established that another inmate, Bo Creel, knows him by sight. This proves significant later on...in ''two'' different scenes.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Cody develops one for Vic, "Vic", all the way to the point of being willing to share the loot fifty-fity with him.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Before Fallon goes undercover in the prison as"Pardo" "Vic Pardo" it's established that another inmate, Bo Creel, knows him by sight. This proves significant later on...in ''two'' different scenes.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Before Fallon goes undercover in the prison as
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: Before Fallon goes undercover in the prison as "Pardo" it's established that another inmate, Bo Creel, knows him by sight. This proves significant later on...in ''two'' different scenes.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Hank reveals that he's been a cop all along once innocent lives start being put in danger. Cody does not take it well.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Hank reveals that he's been is exposed during the payroll heist by Bo Creel, who recognizes him as a cop all along once innocent lives start being put in danger.cop. Cody does not take it well.
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* MunchausenSyndrome: As Fallon's superior explains to him, Cody's violent migraines originated when he was a kid and feigned them to get attention from Ma.
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** Virginia Mayo, who played Verna, revealed in an interview that James Cagny was hiding in a different spot than where she had been told he would be during the scene when they are reunited after he's been in prison. He then deliberately missed his cue, causing her shock and fear to be real. She said for a few seconds, she was actually afraid he was going to kill her.
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** Virginia Mayo, who played Verna, revealed in an interview that James Cagny Cagney was hiding in a different spot than where she had been told he would be during the scene when they are reunited after he's been in prison. He then deliberately missed his cue, causing her shock and fear to be real. She said for a few seconds, she was actually afraid he was going to kill her.
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* DriveInTheater: The Jarrett gang elude the police in one early in the film.
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'''''White Heat''''' is a 1949 WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring JamesCagney. Cagney is Cody Jarrett, the violent and emotionally unstable gang leader who [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas still has a soft spot for his Ma.]] After pulling off a train heist, he gets arrested and convicted for a robbery he didn't commit (as part of an alibi he'd previously arranged). Waiting in prison until the heat is off, he's worried about Big Ed, his second-in-command, taking control of his gang and his (unfaithful) wife. When he hears Ed has killed his mom, an enraged Cody busts out, determined to rub out Ed and regain control of the gang.
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'''''White Heat''''' is a 1949 WarnerBros Creator/WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring JamesCagney.Creator/JamesCagney. Cagney is Cody Jarrett, the violent and emotionally unstable gang leader who [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas still has a soft spot for his Ma.]] After pulling off a train heist, he gets arrested and convicted for a robbery he didn't commit (as part of an alibi he'd previously arranged). Waiting in prison until the heat is off, he's worried about Big Ed, his second-in-command, taking control of his gang and his (unfaithful) wife. When he hears Ed has killed his mom, an enraged Cody busts out, determined to rub out Ed and regain control of the gang.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Hank reveals that he's been a cop all along once innocent lives start being put in danger. Cody does not [[{{Understatement}} take it well.]]
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Hank reveals that he's been a cop all along once innocent lives start being put in danger. Cody does not [[{{Understatement}} take it well.]]
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* TheInfiltration: Hank Fallon, posing as inmate "Vic Pardo" and joining Cody's gang.
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* TheInfiltration: Hank Fallon, posing as inmate "Vic Pardo" and joining Cody's gang.
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* ClimbingClimax: Cody climbs up a gas storage tower to escape his police and [[spoiler:make his last stand.]]
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* EvilOldFolks: Ma Jarrett.
* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed.
* KarmaHoudini: By the standards of audiences today, Verna being arrested seems like a mild punishment. [[ValuesDissonance Back then,]] it was a bit of a shock for audiences to see a beautiful woman behaving like a gangster ''at all'', so her punishment seemed very harsh.
* MoralityPet: Ma Jarrett keeps Cody from going too sociopathic, and more importantly, keeps him sane. Once she dies, Vic deliberately gets close enough to Cody to fulfill the role, an idea that is lampshaded when he's discussing it with his superiors.
* InTheBack: Verna shoots Ma this way, then lies to Cody, saying Big Ed did it. As a way of poetic justice, he then deliberately does the same to Ed.
* KarmaHoudini: By the standards of audiences today, Verna being arrested seems like a mild punishment. [[ValuesDissonance Back then,]] it was a bit of a shock for audiences to see a beautiful woman behaving like a gangster ''at all'', so her punishment seemed very harsh.
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->"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
-->-- '''Cody Jarrett'''
'''''White Heat''''' is a 1949 WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring JamesCagney. Cagney is Cody Jarrett, the violent and emotionally unstable gang leader who [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas still has a soft spot for his Ma.]] After pulling off a train heist, he gets arrested and convicted for a robbery he didn't commit (as part of an alibi he'd previously arranged). Waiting in prison until the heat is off, he's worried about Big Ed, his second-in-command, taking control of his gang and his (unfaithful) wife. When he hears Ed has killed his mom, an enraged Cody busts out, determined to rub out Ed and regain control of the gang.
What he doesn't know, though, is that a trusted fellow con who escaped with him is really [[TheMole an undercover cop.]] It all comes to a spectacular finish during another heist, where Cody makes it to the top of the world...
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!!This work features examples of:
* AxCrazy: Cody
* BeamMeUpScotty: The page quote is often misheard as "Top of the world, Ma!"
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Verna
* ClimbingClimax: Cody climbs up a gas storage tower to escape his police and [[spoiler:make his last stand.]]
* DeathIsDramatic
* DivingSave: Fallon shoves Cody out of the way when another inmate tries to drop a heavy piece of machinery on him in the prison workshop.
* EnforcedMethodActing: The extras in the scene where Jarrett goes ape after being informed of his mother's death were not told of how far Cagney would go. Their surprise was real.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Ma Jarrett's a crook herself and not really a nice person to most people, but Cody still has a soft spot for her.
* FamousLastWords: See above.
* TheInfiltration: Hank Fallon, posing as inmate "Vic Pardo" and joining Cody's gang.
* PoliceProcedural: The film shows in detail how police undercover operatives work, and how a vehicle tail is conducted.
* PsychopathicManchild: Cody, again.
* ThrowItIn: In the scene where Cody has his VillainousBreakdown, he had the two biggest extras seated on both sides of him and had the camera follow him no matter what.
* TrojanHorse: The gas truck Cody's gang rides into the chemical plant. It's even lampshaded.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cody Jarrett wasn't really stable to begin with, but he really loses it when word comes that his Ma was killed.
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->"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
-->-- '''Cody Jarrett'''
'''''White Heat''''' is a 1949 WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring JamesCagney. Cagney is Cody Jarrett, the violent and emotionally unstable gang leader who [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas still has a soft spot for his Ma.]] After pulling off a train heist, he gets arrested and convicted for a robbery he didn't commit (as part of an alibi he'd previously arranged). Waiting in prison until the heat is off, he's worried about Big Ed, his second-in-command, taking control of his gang and his (unfaithful) wife. When he hears Ed has killed his mom, an enraged Cody busts out, determined to rub out Ed and regain control of the gang.
What he doesn't know, though, is that a trusted fellow con who escaped with him is really [[TheMole an undercover cop.]] It all comes to a spectacular finish during another heist, where Cody makes it to the top of the world...
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!!This work features examples of:
* AxCrazy: Cody
* BeamMeUpScotty: The page quote is often misheard as "Top of the world, Ma!"
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Verna
* ClimbingClimax: Cody climbs up a gas storage tower to escape his police and [[spoiler:make his last stand.]]
* DeathIsDramatic
* DivingSave: Fallon shoves Cody out of the way when another inmate tries to drop a heavy piece of machinery on him in the prison workshop.
* EnforcedMethodActing: The extras in the scene where Jarrett goes ape after being informed of his mother's death were not told of how far Cagney would go. Their surprise was real.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Ma Jarrett's a crook herself and not really a nice person to most people, but Cody still has a soft spot for her.
* FamousLastWords: See above.
* TheInfiltration: Hank Fallon, posing as inmate "Vic Pardo" and joining Cody's gang.
* PoliceProcedural: The film shows in detail how police undercover operatives work, and how a vehicle tail is conducted.
* PsychopathicManchild: Cody, again.
* ThrowItIn: In the scene where Cody has his VillainousBreakdown, he had the two biggest extras seated on both sides of him and had the camera follow him no matter what.
* TrojanHorse: The gas truck Cody's gang rides into the chemical plant. It's even lampshaded.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cody Jarrett wasn't really stable to begin with, but he really loses it when word comes that his Ma was killed.
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