featuring one of the screen's great stars and finest actors James Cagney
with Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong
Cagney on fine form and with lists flying as a young lawyer who joins the G-Men to avenge the death of a friend.
Writing of Cagney's career in 1951, Kenneth Tynan said: 'At his best (Public Enemy, The Mayor of Hell, G-Men, White Heat) he flouts every standard of social behaviour with a disarming Irish pungency which makes murder look like an athletic exercise of high spirits and not a mean and easy transgression. He sweetened killing; and to have done this immediately after the Capone regime, during the era of the concentration camp and between two lacerating wars, is something of an achievement.'