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WHITE HEAT
December 3, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Top o’ the world, Ma! (That counts, I guess, as a Truman-era Spoiler Alert.) This 1949 James Cagney movie is one of his finest achievements – and one of the best entries in the gangster film genre. Cagney, in this role, is all id, and crackles with unbridled energy from start to finish. And my, what a finish.

 
 
 
 
 
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