Tag: Edmond O’Brien

White Heat (1949)

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White Heat (1949)

White Heat (1949). 114 minutes. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Starring James Cagney (as Arthur “Cody” Jarrett), Virginia Mayo (as Verna Jarrett), Edmond O’Brien (as Hank Fallon), Margaret Wycherly (as “Ma” Jarrett), Steve Cochran (as “Big Ed” Somers), John Archer (as Philip Evans), Wally Cassell (as Giovanni “Cotton” Valletti), and Fred Clark (as Daniel “The Trader” Winston). Screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Based on a story by Virginia Kellogg.

When James Cagney starred in the pre-Code gangster film The Public Enemy in 1931, little did he know that his on-screen thug persona would quickly become so iconic that he would still be starring in crime movies eighteen years later. Cagney largely considered himself a song-and-dance man, and it was challenging for him to escape from the shadow of The Public Enemy. Aren’t we lucky, however, that Cagney was repeatedly persuaded to act in the crime genre, because he gave us not only Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) in … Read the rest

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

The Other Side of the Wind (2018). 122 minutes. Directed by Orson Welles. Starring John Huston (as J. J. “Jake” Hannaford), Peter Bogdanovich (as Brooks Otterlake), Susan Strasberg (as Juliette Rich), Norman Foster (as Billy Boyle), Oja Kodar (as the Actress), Bob Random (as John Dale), Joseph McBride (as Marvin Pister), Lilli Palmer (as Zarah Valeska), Edmond O’Brien (as Pat Mullins), Mercedes McCambridge (as Maggie Noonan), Cameron Mitchell (as Matt “Zimmie” Zimmer), Dan Tobin (as Dr. Bradley Pease Burroughs), Cathy Lucas (as Mavis Henscher), and Tonio Selwart (as the Baron). Featuring Henry Jaglom, Paul Mazursky, Claude Chabrol, Curtis Harrington, and Dennis Hopper as themselves. Cinematography by Gary Graver. Edited by Bob Murawski and Orson Welles. Produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza.

This November, 48 years after its first day of shooting, Orson Welles’s film The Other Side of the Wind was finally released to the general public on Netflix. The film was not Welles’s last (he left … Read the rest