"There are all kinds of policemen, sir. I don't have to tell you that. A few take bribes... Most are honest, yes, but even some of the honest men abuse their power in other ways."

"This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel."

"You're just lonesome, lonesome, like me...Verna? All I ever had was Ma...I was, uh, I was just walkin' around out there talkin' to mine...well, my old lady never had anything, always on the run, always on the move - some life. First there was my old man, died kickin' and screamin' in a nuthouse. Then my brother. And after that, it was takin' care of me. Always tryin' to put me on top. Top of the world, she used to say. And then, times when I was losin' my grip, there she'd be right behind me, pushin' me back up again. And now...That was a good feelin' out there, talkin' to her, just me and Ma. Good feelin'. Liked it. Maybe I am nuts."

"A Warner Bros. Smash Hit!"

"JAMES CAGNEY in his new Warner hit "White Heat""

"New hit! - New heights!"

"His New Hit from Warner Bros."

"JAMES CAGNEY is red hot in "WHITE HEAT""

"JAMES CAGNEY in His New Warner Bros. Hit"

"Searing the screen like the death-blast of a sub-machine gun!!!"

"Pick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again!"

"Fred Coby - "Happy" Taylor"

"G. Pat Collins - "Reader" Curtin"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Roy Parker"

"Ian MacDonald - "Bo" Creel"

"Fred Clark - Daniel "The Trader" Winston"

"Wally Cassell - "Cotton" Valletti"

"You know something, Verna, if I turn my back for long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it. [he laughs] Big Ed ... great big Ed. Y'know why they call 'im that? 'Cause his ideas are big. One day he's gonna get a really big one ... about me. And it'll be his last."

"John Archer - Philip Evans"

"Ford Rainey - Zuckie"

"Steve Cochran - "Big Ed" Somers"

"Margaret Wycherly - "Ma" Jarrett"

"Edmond O'Brien - Hank Fallon aka "Vic Pardo""

"Virginia Mayo - Verna Jarrett"

"James Cagney - Arthur "Cody" Jarrett"

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

"Come out with your hands up, the man says! How do you like THAT,MA? Here's my answer, you dirty......"

"Erich von Stroheim - The Great Flamarion"

"Johnny, let me go, please let me go. I can't stand it any more..."

"Gilda gambles as recklessly as she lives!"

"RITA HAYWORTH...dynamic as never before...scaling new dramatic heights in her most exciting role!"

"Bewitchy !"

"I was true to one man once... and look what happened..."

"I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived..."

"There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!"

"Anita Ellis (singing voice of Rita Hayworth)"

"George J. Lewis - Huerta"

"Don Douglas - Thomas Langford"

"Ludwig Donath - German"

"Mark Roberts - Gabe Evans"

"Gerald Mohr - Capt. Delgado"

"Joe Sawyer - Casey"

"Steven Geray - Uncle Pio"

"Joseph Calleia - Det. Maurice Obregon"

"George Macready - Ballin Mundson"

"Glenn Ford - Johnny Farrell / Narrator"

"Rita Hayworth - Gilda Mundson Farrell"

"She didn't know then what was happening to her. She didn't know then that what she heard was the door closing on her own cage. She hadn't been faithful to him when he was alive, but she was gonna be faithful to him now that he was dead."

"Pardon me, but your husband is showing."