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Cagney Cavalcade: White Heat

BBC One
on BBC One London

A season of films featuring one of the screen's great stars and finest actors
James Cagney
Tonight: White Heat
with Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran

White Heat marked Cagney's triumphant return to the gangster film after an absence of ten years: in it he gives a remarkable performance as Cody Jarrett, a near-psychopath dominated by and obsessed with his mother - another impressive performance from the English actress Margaret Wycherly.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ivan Goff
Screenplay:
Ben Roberts
From a story by:
Virginia Kellogg
Producer:
Louis F. Feldman
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Cody Jarrett:
James Cagney
Verna Jarrett:
Virginia Mayo
Hank Fallon (Vic Pardo):
Edmond O'Brien
Ma Jarrett:
Margaret Wycherly
'Big Ed' Somers:
Steve Cochran
Philip Evans:
John Archer
Cotton Valetti:
Wally Cassell
Het Kohler:
Mickey Knox
Source: Radio Times

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