Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, a special crossover episode with The Movie Palace Podcast, a film podcast hosted by Carl Sweeney taking a look at the classics of Hollywood’s golden age. Carl suggested a crossover episode taking a look at the list, and particularly some of the classic movies listed on it.
So this week, Raoul Walsh’s White Heat.
Fleeing the authorities after a train robbery that resulted in two murders, Cody Jarrett latches on to an unconventional scheme to evade detection. Jarrett turns himself into the authorities for a crime he didn’t commit, earning a lesser sentence and putting him in the clear. However, things are changing rapidly for Cody, and the ground is very quickly shrinking out from under him.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 14th May 2020.
- A special podcast episode recorded with Carl. He was a very gracious host.
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- White Heat on the Internet Movie Database.
- Kenneth Tynan at Sight & Sound profiles James Cagney, May 1951.
- Craig Campbell at The Sunday Post offers a retrospective on James Cagney, October 2019.
- James Cagney talks to Rolling Stone about his career and legacy, February 1982.
- Noel Murray at The Dissolve offers a brief history of the gangster genre, May 2014.
- Noel Murray contextualises White Heat in the history of the gangster genre at The A.V. Club, February 2005.
- Brian Eggert review White Heat at Deep Focus, May 2013.
- Graham Daseler at Bright Lights Film Journal on the decline of Warner Brothers as a studio in the thirties and forties, January 2014.
- James Cagney talks to Interview Magazine about his cinematic legacy, December 1985.
- Bosley Crowther at The New York Times reviews Yankee Doodle Dandy, May 1942.
- Roger Ebert retrospectively reviews Yankee Doodle Dandy for The Chicago Sun Times, July 1998.
- Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club discusses the iconic ending of White Heat, July 2013.
- Bosley Crowther reviews White Heat for The New York Times, September 1949.
- Nils Berg at Movie Babble argues for White Heat as the quintessential post-Second World War gangster film, September 2019.
- Adam Danks at Senses of Cinema describes White Heat as a precursor to the “atomic noir” of the fifties, September 2017.
- Peter B. Flint at The New York Times offers an obituary of Raoul Walsh, January 1981.
- Brian Gallagher discusses how James Cagney shifted the idea of movie stardom in Images, May 1997.
- David Kehr at The New York Times looks back on the transition to talkies, January 2010.
- Joe Marine at No Film School discusses the use of accent in early American cinema, December 2015.
- Nick Schager at The A.V. Club looks back on James Cagney as a song-and-dance man, June 2015.
- Paul Gallagher at Dangerous Minds reflects on the poetry of James Cagney, April 2015.
- Joe Queenan at The Guardian on James Cagney as a breakout Irish American film star, July 2010.
- Erika Noelle Mann at University of Montana on the commodification of Irishness in American cinema, 2008.
- Christopher Klein at History on the history of the Irish assimilating into America, March 2016.
- Entertainment Weekly offers a brief history of cinematic gangsters, October 1990.
- Anne Brice at Berkeley News on “the last great train robbery”, April 2019.
- Jeff Guinn at The Guardian contrasts the myth and the reality of depression era outlaws, June 2009.
- Christopher Goodwin at The Times on John Dillinger as an American folk hero, June 2009.
- Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com discusses White Heat as a horror movie, January 2019.
- James B Evans at Electric Sheep on the Oedipal subtext of White Heat, April 2010.
- Tim Bean at Orange Bean on the complicated myth and reality of “Ma” Barker, May 2020.
- Benjamin Wallace-Wells at New York Magazine looks back on America’s postwar prosperity, July 2013.
- Christopher Klein at History on the origins of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s innovations on interstate highways, June 2016.
- Allen Barra at True West looks at Raoul Walsh’s lost Pancho Villa epic, January 2016.
- Chris Kraul at The Los Angeles Times reflects on The Life of General Villa, August 2003.
- Old Radio Shows reports on the legend involving Raoul Walsh and the corpse of John Barrymore, July 2018.
- Orson Welles discusses meeting Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill on The Dick Cavett Show, July 1970.
- Fred Dibnah: Steeple-jockey, BBC, 1976.
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