White Heat

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White Heat

Released Jun 15, 1934

1h 0m

Drama

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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.

Andre Sennwald

New York Times

Filmed against a Hawaiian background, White Heat is a humorless account of the amorous difficulties of a young sugar planter.

Sep 16, 2020

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Variety Staff

Variety

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.

Sep 16, 2020

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James T. Hamada

The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)

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.

Sep 16, 2020

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Film Daily Staff

The Film Daily

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.

Sep 16, 2020

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Shadow Stage

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A cane fire, started while Newell and Hardie Albright are in terrific fistic combat, livens things at the end.

Sep 16, 2020

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shares a title with the great jimmy cagney gangsta pic but no gangsters here

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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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.)

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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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