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White Heat

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The owner of a tropical plantation pushes aside the affections of an island woman for the attentions of a socialite from the United States.

Critics Reviews

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Andre Sennwald New York Times 09/16/2020
Filmed against a Hawaiian background, White Heat is a humorless account of the amorous difficulties of a young sugar planter. Go to Full Review Variety Staff Variety 09/16/2020
Film has all the earmarks of authenticity. The camera, however, lacked the vision of the average travelogue. or newsreel clip for which this locale is old territory. Go to Full Review James T. Hamada The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu) 09/16/2020
There are many spots where the film looks like the Infant talkies back in 1929, and the acting is generally amateurish. Despite its crudity, movie fans on Kauai will : undoubtedly want to see it. Go to Full Review Film Daily Staff The Film Daily 09/16/2020
It has been written and directed by those who quite obviously are familiar with the unusual background of the drama. Hence it carries a strong atmosphere of realism and sincerity. Go to Full Review Shadow Stage Photoplay 09/16/2020
A cane fire, started while Newell and Hardie Albright are in terrific fistic combat, livens things at the end. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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11/30/2012 shares a title with the great jimmy cagney gangsta pic but no gangsters here See more 10/02/2012 A gangster movie that is so much more than that.Each act could have been fleshed out into its own awesome movie: Drama and schemes within a gang, an undercover cop and a criminal mastermind share a prison cell, and a cat and mouse story of a gang on the run. Instead, we get an extremely dense, thrilling movie. The sequence near the end of the movie that shows tactics police used at the time was really neat. Plus, a truly explosive ending. (Note: this review is for the 1949 film of the same title starring James Cagney, but it is not on this website yet.) See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Lois Weber

Director

Virginia Cherrill

Lucille Cheney

Mona Maris

Leilani

Hardie Albright

Chandler Morris

David Newell

William Hawkes

Arthur Clayton

Armia

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Movie Info

Synopsis The owner of a tropical plantation pushes aside the affections of an island woman for the attentions of a socialite from the United States.
Director
Lois Weber
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 15, 1934, Original
Runtime
1h 0m