Four-Star Films : ‘White Heat’
This is the fast-moving gangster classic written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts from a Virginia Kellogg story. Director Raoul Walsh gets away with placing migraine-prone mobster James Cagney (pictured) on his mother’s lap without a trace of self-consciousness; never was an Oedipus complex presented with so little fuss. This 1949 Warners production, which co-stars Virginia Mayo (pictured) and Edmond O’Brien, is even more famous fo Cagney’s ironic tag line: “Top of the world, Ma!” (TMC Sunday at 7:30 a.m., Cinemax Tuesday at 6:30 a.m.).
Other four-star films airing this week:
Unfaithfully Yours (1948 version) Cinemax, Wednesday, 9 a.m.
America, America AMC, Wednesday, 8 p.m.
All the President’s Men KCOP, Thursday, 2:30 a.m.
Death in Venice Bravo, Thursday, 7:35 p.m., Friday at midnight and 2 p.m.
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