What is White Heat / The Undercover Man about?

Name: White Heat / The Undercover Man
Genre: Drama,Suspense/Thriller

WHITE HEAT, 1949, Warner Bros. 114 min. Made it, Ma! Top of the world! Raoul Walsh’s direction makes this one of the most electrifying crime thrillers ever made. Mama's boy and psycho gang leader, Cody Jarrett is the quintessential James Cagney performance, an example of a star's titanic personality merging with the fiction to create an unforgettable character. With Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran and Margaret Wycherly as "Ma." THE UNDERCOVER MAN, 1949, Sony Repertory, 85 min. Although based on the conviction of Al Capone in 1931 of tax evasion, director Joseph Lewis (GUN CRAZY) only refers to the head mobster as The Big Man. Since Chicago gangland’s rampage of extortion and murder is unchecked by conventional law enforcement, treasury agent Glenn Ford goes undercover on a trail of dummy corporations and falsified financial records.

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What is White Heat / The Undercover Man about?: WHITE HEAT, 1949, Warner Bros. 114 min. Made it, Ma! Top of the world! Raoul Walsh’s direction makes this one of the most electrifying crime thrillers ever made. Mama's boy and psycho gang leader, Cody Jarrett is the quintessential James Cagney performance, an example of a star's titanic personality merging with the fiction to create an unforgettable character. With Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran and Margaret Wycherly as "Ma."

THE UNDERCOVER MAN, 1949, Sony Repertory, 85 min. Although based on the conviction of Al Capone in 1931 of tax evasion, director Joseph Lewis (GUN CRAZY) only refers to the head mobster as The Big Man. Since Chicago gangland’s rampage of extortion and murder is unchecked by conventional law enforcement, treasury agent Glenn Ford goes undercover on a trail of dummy corporations and falsified financial records.