WHITE HEAT (1949) Cagney goes out in a blaze

"MADE IT TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!" screams mama's boy + psychopath Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) in the climax of WHITE HEAT, and his exit is one of the most explosive in films. This rapid-paced prison breakout movie is basically a very good "B" movie with great "A" movie performances by Cagney and Virginia Mayo. Watch for “Ouch!” scene when Cagney kicks the chair Mayo is perched on right out from under her - and another when Jarrett empties his rod into car trunk – along with the hoodlum locked inside – while munching on a fried chicken leg.