White Heat

James Cagney became one of the most iconic actors of Classic Hollywood by playing gangsters in some of the most important gangster films of the 1930s. By the end of the decade, however, he was quite tired of it and feared that he would be hopelessly typecast. So, he gave up on such roles and tried to switch his career towards different genres like musicals or comedy. At the end of the 1940s, however, he returned to…