White Heat
| White Heat | |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Screenplay by | Ivan Goff Ben Roberts |
| Based on | White Heat by Virginia Kellogg |
| Produced by | Louis F. Edelman |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million or $1,300,000 |
| Box office | $1.9 million or $3,483,000 |
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, and Edmond O'Brien, and directed by Raoul Walsh. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time. In 2003, White Heat was added to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress.