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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 25 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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| What is the full name of Cagney's psychotic gangster? | White Heat
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Arthur Cody Jarrett. Cagney played Powers in 'The Public Enemy' and Sullivan in 'Angels With Dirty Faces', both in the 30's, as well as Davis in 'G-Man', where he played a lawyer who became a fed to avenge a friend's murder.
Raoul Walsh. Walsh made many a classic including 'High Sierra' and two Cagney films,'The Strawberry Blonde' and 'A Lion Is In The Streets'. Huston never worked with Cagney as did Curtiz and Wellman.
Margaret Wycherly. English-born Wycherly was magnificent as Jarrett's flinty, yet devoted {mother;} Cagney's reaction to her death in prison is unforgettable.
| What were Jarrett and his gang robbing at the beginning of the film? | White Heat
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A train. On it was Federal currency they were peddling to the postwar European black market.
| What gang member was injured during the robbery, and would later die? | White Heat
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Zuckie. 'Zuckie' Zuckerman was the one scalded by steam from the train when Cody killed an {engineer;} Bo Creel joined the gang later.
| Who was Cody's treacherous wife, and who played her? | White Heat
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Verna, Virginia Mayo. Mayo also starred in Walsh's 'Colorado Territory'(Walsh's western remake of 'Sierra') and 'Captain Horatio Hornblower', and co-starred again with Cagney in 'The West Point Story'.
| Who played police undercover man Hank Fallon, and what was his alias? | White Heat
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Edmond O'Brien, Vic Pardo. O'Brien was a fixture in many of the film noir classics, including 'D.O.A.', 'The Killers' and 'A Double Life'. He was hilarious in 'The Girl Can't Help It' and won an Oscar for 'The Barefoot Contessa'.
| What movie did Jarrett, Ma and Verna watch at the drive-in when escaping police pursuit? | White Heat
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Task Force. 'Task Force' was another Warners film, directed by Delmer Daves.
| What was different about Herbert, one of Cody's cellmates? | White Heat
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He was deaf. He was known as 'The Reader' for his lip-reading ability, which he used for Cody.
Verna. Big Ed and Verna had an affair behind Cody's back, but it was Verna who killed Ma. And she got away with it, too, by lying to Cody that Big Ed did it!
| What was the target of Cody's last caper? | White Heat
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A chemical plant. A Brink's car was robbed in real life in the {50's;} James Bond's foe Goldfinger planned the Fort Knox heist.
| What Greek myth did Cody use to explain how they would enter their target? | White Heat
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The Trojan Horse. Cody's 'Trojan Horse' was an old gas truck where he and his gang hid in when entering the plant to rob the payroll.
| What TV series did the writers of 'White Heat' later create? | White Heat
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Charlie's Angels. Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (who wrote 'White Heat' from a story by Virginia Kellogg) are best known for 'Charlie's Angels'.
blew himself up. Trapped on one of the plant's fuel tanks, and shot by Fallon, Cody blew himself to bits rather than be captured!
'Made it, Ma! Top O' The World!'. One of the great exit lines in any movie!
| In "White Heat", when Virginia Mayo tells Cody Jarrett, played by James Cagney, that she doesn't have anything to wear, he says that she'd look good in, what? | White Heat
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a shower curtain. Even though his character was supposed to be "nuts", Cagney, in "White Heat", ruled the roost and had his gang on pins & needles. Mayo would rather have run out on the rest of the gang so she could have spent all the loot.
| After the train heist in "White Heat", Big Ed, can't figure why the gang is waiting around in the hideout. He tells Cody that he feels cooped up like, what? | White Heat
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a bunch of gophers. Soon, a storm blows in, road blocks ease and the Gang gets on the move.
| In "White Heat", how did Cody say Big Ed got his name? | White Heat
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He has big ideas.. Cody says that one day, Big Ed is going to get big ideas about him and they will be his last.
| In "White Heat", Ma left the new hideout, against his wishes, to go get Cody his favorite fruit. What was that? | White Heat
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strawberries. The coppers were on the lookout and tailed her back to the gang.
| In "White Heat", Cody turned himself in for what other crime, so the Feds couldn't pin the mail train robbery & murder on him? | White Heat
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hotel heist. Cody figured he'd be off the hook after a short stretch. They couldn't get him for the federal charges because he couldn't be in two places at the same time.
| In "White Heat", what city did Cody do his short stretch before breaking out? | White Heat
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Springfield, IL. He was going to miss his Ma because she was always there to keep him calm and boost his ego.
| In "White Heat", how did Big Ed try to knock off Cody in prison? | White Heat
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have a machine part drop on him. An undercover Fed pushed him out of the way and the heavy machine part barely missed Cody.
| In "White Heat", what causes Cody to have a tantrum in the prison mess hall? | White Heat
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He finds out that his mother is dead.. With Ma dead, Cody plans a breakout to catch Big Ed, see his sweety and pull another job.
| In "White Heat", what's Cody eating when he shoots Parker, a fellow prison escapee, through the trunk of a car? | White Heat
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a chicken leg. After giving Parker some air holes, Cody's new gang goes off looking for Big Ed.
| In "White Heat", how does the gang get inside the oil refinery to rob the payroll? | White Heat
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They're hidden in a gas truck.. After failing at his final job, Cody blows himself up on top of a gas holding tank. In a huge ball of fire, Cody yells to his Ma that he finally made it to the "top of the world".
Hope you enjoyed this one. Look for more Gangster Classics coming soon.
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