White Heat 1949

An unstable criminal—Arthur Jarrett, nicknamed Cody, who is under his mother’s care—carries out a daring robbery as part of a gang. To avoid the gas chamber, he voluntarily confesses to a crime he didn’t commit, serving a short two-year prison sentence. But while he’s away, Cody’s wife, Verna, kills her domineering mother-in-law in a plot with her lover—one of the gang members. Driven mad by grief, the son escapes from prison to seek revenge, taking several inmates with him. But he has no idea that one of the escapees is an undercover agent…