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White Heat (1949) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]

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Title:	White Heat [IMDb]				Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	September 03, 1949
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	114 minutes
IMDB genres:	action, crime, drama, film-noir
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6909227

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Cast and Crew Actor Role James Cagney Cody Jarrett Virginia Mayo Verna Jarrett Edmond O'Brien Hank Fallon Margaret Wycherly Ma Jarrett Steve Cochran Big Ed Somers John Archer Philip Evans Wally Cassell Cotton Valletti Fred Clark The Trader Ian MacDonald Bo Creel Ford Rainey Zuckie Hommell Raoul Walsh: director Max Steiner: composer Murray Cutter: orchestrator Film Statistics Stats Film duration: 1:53:16 Music duration: 03:56:38 Pages in score: 209 Total themes: 48 Themes with variants: 23 Total variants: 97 Total gestures: 15 Total underscoring sections: 34 Total underscoring duration: 19:07:53 Total instances: 228

Themes Name Uses Variants Agents 20 9 Pursuit 20 10 Cody 16 12 Danger 14 9 Plotting 12 7 T-Men 10 9 Verna 7 6 Ma 6 4 Rushing 6 3 Cody 2 5 3 Cody 3 5 3 Misterioso 5 4 Speed 5 3 White Heat 5 3 Agitato 3 1 Madness 3 1 Moll 3 1 Prison Fight 3 0 Trap 3 0 Truck 3 2 Big Ed 2 0 Bo Creel 2 1 Driving 2 1 Gathering 2 0 Getaway 2 1 Headache 2 1 Mirror 2 0 Prison 2 0 Struggle 2 0 Thinking 2 0 Zuckie's Death 2 0 Big Ed's Death 1 0 Con Moto 1 0 Fight 1 0 Gate 1 0 Message on the Mirror 1 0 Morgue 1 0 Police Raid 1 0 Prison Break 1 0 Riley's Death 1 0 Signature 1 0 Transition 1 0 Whispering 1 0 Other films borrowed from: Crime School (1938) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Key Largo (1948) Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

Combinations Name Uses Agents + Pursuit 6 Prison Fight + Agents 2 Agents + Gathering 1 Rushing + Agents 1 Source Music Name Uses Five O'Clock Whistle 1 Gestures Name Backing up Climbing stairs Cody rises Crawling Falling and dying Falling down stairs Jumping on bed Jumping out window Panning Punching and falling Running to window Sliding down pole Steam Stirring the pot Verna falls

Underscoring Name Dark Dramatic Mysterious Tense