White Heat is a 1949 American film noir starring James Cagney , Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien , and directed by Raoul Walsh .
121-551: Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts , White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg , and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time. In 2003, it was added to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress . Arthur "Cody" Jarrett is a ruthless, psychotic criminal and leader of
242-560: A weighted average of 8.50/10. The site's consensus reads: "Raoul Walsh's crime drama goes further into the psychology of a gangster than most fear to tread and James Cagney's portrayal of the tragic anti-hero is constantly volatile". In 1950, Virginia Kellogg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story . Also that year writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, by
363-566: A High School at Ground Zero . During the 2003–2004 school year, Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a full year of activities. Events included a procession from the 15th Street building to the Chambers Street one, a meeting of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, an all-class reunion, and visits and speeches from notable alumni. In
484-424: A certain distance from the school are provided full-fare or half-fare student MetroCards for public transportation at the start of each term, based on how far away the student resides from the school. As of 2024, students are provided with OMNY cards that offer four free rides throughout the day, as well as public transportation access over the weekend. Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students and
605-499: A contest to put on the best performance. SING! started in 1947 at Midwood High School in Brooklyn and has expanded to many New York City high schools since then. SING! at Stuyvesant started as a small event in 1973, and since then, has grown to a school-wide event; in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, directed, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of
726-422: A cowboy movie. We assumed his idea of dialogue was writing 'Cut them off at the pass, dear chaps'." Goff then joined the staff at Warner Bros. He was working on a picture called Stuff of Heroes for Jane Bryan . Goff wrote a film for Columbia, The Out for Movies . He was one of several writers on an A-picture, My Love Came Back (1940) and did some uncredited work on The Great Mr. Nobody (1941). He
847-425: A double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students: some students would attend in the morning, while others would take classes in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until Spring 1957. The school implemented a system of entrance examinations in 1934. The examination program, developed with the assistance of Columbia University ,
968-576: A fifth-season episode of Cheers , a second-season episode of Breaking Bad and the series finale of Mixels . The line is also quoted in the Kings of the Sun song "Drop the Gun". The film has inspired songs such as Madonna 's "White Heat" on True Blue ; the song was also dedicated to Cagney. Sam Baker 's "White Heat" references the plot and dialogue on his 2013 album Say Grace . The "Made it ma! Top of
1089-410: A five-year contract. Although Goff and Roberts considered themselves primarily comedy writers, Warners saw them as action men and assigned them to rewrite another script, a gangster story called White Heat (1949). White Heat was based on a story submitted to the studio by Virginia Kellogg , which had been inspired by a real-life robbery. Goff and Roberts turned Kellogg's story inside out, making it
1210-537: A glass wall, featuring mathematical concepts and reflections on Rothenberg. In 2006, Robert Ira Lewy of the class of 1960 made a gift worth $ 1 million to found the Dr. Robert Ira Lewy M.D. Multimedia Center. and donated his personal library in 2007. In late 2010, the high school's library merged with the New York Public Library (NYPL) network in a four-year pilot program, in which all students of
1331-516: A gun, which Cody uses to take hostages, and along with Hank and their cellmates, Cody escapes. They also take along Parker. Cody later kills him in cold blood. When they learn of Cody's escape, Big Ed and Verna anxiously await his return. Verna tries slipping away, but Cody catches her. Although Verna murdered Ma, she convinces Cody that Big Ed did it, so Cody guns him down. The gang welcome the escapees, including Hank, whom Cody likes and trusts. They start planning their next job. A stranger shows up at
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#17327732377261452-548: A lesser crime committed by an associate in Springfield, Illinois , at the same time as the train job—a federal crime—thus providing him with a false alibi and assuring him a lesser sentence. He turns himself in and is sentenced to one to three years in state prison. Evans, however, plants undercover agent Hank Fallon (as "Vic Pardo") in Cody's cell. His task is to find the "Trader," a fence who launders stolen money for Cody. On
1573-470: A musical melodrama with Mario Lanza , Serenade (1956), from a novel by James M. Cain . At Warners they did a Civil War era saga for Raoul Walsh, Band of Angels (1957), then made a third film with Cagney, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a biopic of Lon Chaney which earned Goff and Roberts an Oscar nomination.. They wrote a pilot for a TV series that was never made, The Fat Man (1959). Cagney used them again for an IRA thriller, Shake Hands with
1694-599: A newspaper, a yearbook , and literary magazines. Stuyvesant has educated four Nobel laureates . Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder , physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall , economist Thomas Sowell , mathematician Paul Cohen , chemist Roald Hoffmann , biologist Eric Lander , Oscar-winning actor James Cagney , comedian Billy Eichner , young adult fiction author Jordan Sonnenblick , and chess grandmaster Robert Hess . The then independent city of Brooklyn 's Superintendent of Schools, William Henry Maxwell , had first written in
1815-427: A psychopath with a mother fixation. Cody's mental illness and the exact cause of his migraines remain a mystery throughout the film. This was done intentionally, enabling viewers to use their imaginations and draw their own conclusions. The script received several rewrites, with input being given from some of Cagney's closest friends. Humphrey Bogart and Frank McHugh worked "after hours" on revisions; with McHugh writing
1936-602: A report about the need to construct technical / scientific oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout New York state in 1887. This would follow other examples of specialized high schools such as the Baltimore Manual Training School, now the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute . The municipal architect and engineer C. B. J. Snyder , who designed many of the city's public school buildings, had repeatedly mentioned
2057-426: A schedule of one film per year, plus script approval and the opportunity to develop projects for his own company. To make good on his comeback, Cagney settled on the script for White Heat ; on May 6, 1949, he signed on to portray Arthur "Cody" Jarrett. Much to Jack Warner's dismay, it was writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts who suggested him for the lead, claiming "there's only one man who can play [Jarrett] and make
2178-547: A school building, and so the new school was initially housed within Public School #47's former building at 225 East 23rd Street . The Board of Education also wrote that the new school would be "designated as the Stuyvesant High School, as being reminiscent of the locality." Stuyvesant Square , Stuyvesant Street , and later Stuyvesant Town (which was built subsequently in 1947) are all located near
2299-642: A semester each of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy ; civil and criminal law , prejudice and persecution, and race , ethnicity and gender issues. In 2004, Stuyvesant High entered into an agreement with the City College of New York (C.C.N.Y. – part of the larger City University of New York ), which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by S.H.S. faculty. Some of these courses include linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history. Prior to
2420-603: A semi ' Greek tragedy ' about a gangster with a mother complex. James Cagney agreed to star, Raoul Walsh directed and the resulting film became an instant classic. Kellogg was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Story, but, under Academy rules of the time, Goff and Roberts were not. In an essay on the making of the film and writing of the script, writer Patrick McGilligan observed: Goff and Roberts regard themselves as slow, methodical craftsmen. They plot in complete detail before even beginning to write. Then they write their dialogue together, line by line. Roberts seems to be
2541-524: A short story that lacked an ending. Goff came up with an ending and suggested that they turn it into a play instead of a short story. Working at night over a period of 13 months, they completed the play, which was called Portrait in Black and had runs in London and Broadway. It also sold to the movies for $ 100,000. Goff was also credited on a comedy for PRC, The Captain from Köpenick (1945). It would be
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#17327732377262662-507: A similar fashion to how Cody Jarrett stalks the double-crossing "Big Ed" Somers (portrayed by Steve Cochran ). The production began on May 5, 1949, and lasted six weeks until completion on June 20. Walsh made use of a number of locations in southern California; first by going to the Santa Susana Mountains (near his home) to shoot "chase scenes". He then moved on to an old Southern Pacific tunnel near Chatsworth to stage
2783-522: A single foreign language; a semester each of introductory art, music, health, and technical drawing ; one semester of computer science ; and two lab-based technology courses. Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors. Stuyvesant offers students a selection of elective courses, uncluding astronomy , New York City history, Women's Voices, and Computer Graphics Design in the Computer Science Area. Most students complete
2904-505: A team, and wrote Prejudice (1949), a short film about anti-Semitism produced by the Protestant Film Commission . They also wrote a screenplay based on a Ben Hecht story, The Shadow , which was never filmed, but attracted the interest of Warner Bros. who hired them to rewrite a murder mystery, Backfire (made in 1948, released in 1950). Their work on that film impressed the studio enough to sign them to
3025-462: A thriller in South Africa, The Second Sin (1966). Three for Danger (1967) was another unsold pilot but they wrote an episode of Ironside and The Danny Thomas Hour , and enjoyed great success as writers and producers for Mannix (1968–75) from its second season onwards, overseeing significant changes on the show. A profile of Goff and Roberts from 1968 said that "the rapport between
3146-688: A uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant High. The exam, named the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), tested the mathematical and verbal abilities of students who were applying to any of the specialized high schools. The only exception was for applicants to the music and arts program at LaGuardia High School, who were accepted by audition rather than examination. The current school building in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan since 1992,
3267-473: A voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration. Stuyvesant allows students to join clubs, publications, and teams under a system similar to that of many colleges. As of 2015 , the school had 150 student clubs. The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper, which is published biweekly and is independent from the school administration and faculty. There are over 250 students who help with its publication. At
3388-612: Is a co-ed, public , college-preparatory, specialized high school in Manhattan , New York City, United States. The school, commonly referred to among its students, faculty and alumni as " Stuy" ( / s t aɪ / STY ), specializes in developing talent in math, science and technology. Operated by the New York City Department of Education , specialized schools offer tuition -free, advanced classes to New York City high school students. Stuyvesant High School
3509-539: Is about a half-mile / 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the site of the World Trade Center , which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the smoke cloud from the World Trade Center temporarily covered the building, there was no structural damage, and there were no reports of physical injuries. Less than an hour after
3630-545: Is open to residents of New York City entering ninth or tenth grade . Enrollment is based solely on performance on the three-hour Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, which is administered annually. Approximately 28,000 students took the test in 2017. The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include eight of New York's nine specialized high schools. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has consistently been higher than that needed for admission to
3751-443: Is revealed that Verna has murdered Ma, whom she despised (as well as vice versa), by shooting her in the back. Big Ed knows this and holds this information over Verna to keep her with him. When Cody learns of Ma's death from a new inmate, he goes berserk in the mess hall. He concocts an escape plan. In the infirmary, he is diagnosed as having a "homicidal psychosis" and is recommended for transfer to an asylum. Another inmate sneaks him
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3872-559: The 2005 revision of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 (685 in the verbal section of the test, 723 in the math section). In 2010, the average score on the SAT for Stuyvesant students was 2087 out of 2400, while the class of 2013 had an average SAT score of 2096. As of 2023 , Stuyvesant students' average SAT score was 1510 of 1600 points. Stuyvesant also administers more Advanced Placement exams than supposedly any other high school in
3993-749: The Mystery Writers of America . In 2003, the United States Library of Congress selected White Heat for preservation in the National Film Registry . On June 4, 2003, the American Film Institute named Cody Jarrett in its list of the best heroes and villains of the past 100 years , he was voted 26th. Furthermore, in June 2005, "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!" was voted 18th in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes ; while, in June 2008, White Heat
4114-493: The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test , required for the New York City Public Schools system. Every March, approximately 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores are accepted, out of about 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant. Extracurricular activities at the school include a Math Team, Speech and Debate Team, a yearly theater competition and various student publications including
4235-633: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . There Judge J. Edward Lumbard , joined by Judge Murray Gurfein and over dissent by third Judge Walter R. Mansfield , held that the distribution of the questionnaires was properly disallowed by the administration. The higher level U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review. The annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in
4356-505: The semi-documentary style of films of the period (the 1948 The Naked City ), and contained film-noirish elements, including the shady black-and-white cinematography , the femme fatale character, and the twisted psyche of the criminal gangster. In 2005, White Heat was listed in Time magazine 's top 100 films of all time. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 80 reviews, with
4477-509: The "Sporting Globe". Eventually, they made their way to London in July 1931. He and Irwin later published a book of their travels called No Longer Innocent in late 1933. This was well received. He worked in several jobs, including as a bookie, while trying to break into journalism. He eventually found work with the Daily Mirror , which in the mid-1930s sent Goff to Los Angeles as
4598-436: The 1905–1907 school building was deteriorating due to overuse and lack of proper maintenance. A New York Times daily newspaper expose report stated that the building had "held out into old age with minimal maintenance and benign neglect until its peeling paint, creaking floorboards and antiquated laboratories became an embarrassment." The five-story building could not cater adequately to the several thousand students, leading
4719-529: The 1969 U.S. Supreme Court holding in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression", Motley ordered the New York City Board of Education to permit the distribution of the survey to the juniors and seniors. However, Judge Motley's ruling was overturned on appeal to
4840-438: The 1970s and 1980s, when New York City municipal government and especially the public schools system, in general, were marked by violence, vandalism / graffiti and low academic grades among their students, Stuyvesant High still had an excellent academic reputation for being a top-notch public high school, and was still graduating well-prepared and accomplished alumni, (judging from their track record now four decades later). However,
4961-667: The 1975–1976 academic year, The Voice decided to publish the results of a confidential random survey. The administration refused to permit The Voice to distribute the questionnaire, and the Board of Education refused to intervene. The then editor-in-chief of The Voice , brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in front of Judge Constance Baker Motley . Relying on
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5082-524: The 2013 academic year, the student body was 72.43% Asian, 21.44% Caucasian , 1.03% African American, 2.34% Hispanic , and 3% unknown/other. The paucity of Black and Hispanic students at Stuyvesant High has often been an issue for some city administrators. In 1971, then 103rd New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay (1921–2000, served 1966–1973), argued that the test was culturally biased against black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an affirmative action program. However, protests by parents forced
5203-462: The 21st century, keynote graduation speakers have included Attorney General Eric Holder (2001), , United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (2004), comedian Conan O'Brien (2006), actor George Takei (2016), and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (2018). In August 1904, the Board of Education authorized municipal architect and engineer Snyder to design a new facility for Stuyvesant High School at 15th Street. The new high school structure
5324-436: The 83rd year of its history of 1987, the 105th Mayor of New York City , Ed Koch (1924–2013, served 1978–1989), and 52nd Governor of New York State Mario Cuomo (1932–2015, served 1983–1994), jointly announced the coming construction project of a third new Stuyvesant High School building to be situated in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan . The Battery Park City Authority donated 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of land for
5445-623: The Art Commission of the City of New York. The New York City Subway 's Chambers Street station , served by the 1 , 2 , and 3 trains, is located nearby, as well as the Chambers Street–World Trade Center station served by the A , C , and E trains. Additionally, New York City Bus 's M9 , M20 and M22 routes stop near Stuyvesant. Students residing
5566-454: The Devil (1959) and they wrote an episode of Bourbon Street Beat (1960). 1960 finally saw the release of a film version of Portrait in Black . It was produced by Ross Hunter who used Goff and Roberts on a similar thriller, Midnight Lace (1960). They wrote a third film for Hunter, a remake of Next Time We Love , for Doris Day and Rock Hudson , but it was not made. They did
5687-523: The Jarrett gang. Although married to Verna, he is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, "Ma" Jarrett. Cody and his gang rob a mail train in the Sierra Nevada mountains, killing four members of the train's crew. While on the lam, Cody has a severe migraine, which Ma nurses him through. Afterward, Ma and Cody have a quick drink and toast, "Top of the world!" before rejoining
5808-544: The New York City Board of Education to make plans to move the school to a new building in Battery Park City , near lower Manhattan 's Financial District . The 15th Street building remains in use over 32 years later as the "Old Stuyvesant Campus," housing three smaller schools: the Institute for Collaborative Education, the High School for Health Professions and Human Services , and lower grades of PS 226. In
5929-487: The New York City Regents courses by junior year and take calculus during their senior year. However, the school offers math courses through differential equations for the more advanced students. A year of technical drawing was formerly required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer in the second. Now, students take a one-semester compacted version of
6050-422: The SHSAT "permanently suspect" and described it as a "product of an institutional racism ," saying that black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials. Along with then New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew (born 1950, N.Y.C. public schools chancellor, 1995–1999), they began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding
6171-473: The SHSAT be suspended altogether until the city's Board of Education was able to show all children have had access to appropriate materials to prepare themselves. Students published several editorials in response to ACORN's claims, stating the admissions system at the school was based on student merit, not race. A number of students take preparatory courses offered by private tutorial companies such as The Princeton Review and Kaplan, Inc. to perform better on
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#17327732377266292-580: The SHSAT, often leaving those unable to afford such classes at a disadvantage. To bridge this gap and boost minority admissions, the Board of Education started the Math Science Institute in 1995, a free program to prepare students for the admissions test. Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute (also known as DREAM), at several schools around
6413-503: The ages of 15 and 21. In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor was dedicated to Richard Rothenberg, the S.H.S. mathematics department chairman who had died from a sudden heart attack earlier that year. Sculptor Madeleine Segall-Marx was commissioned to create the Rothenberg Memorial in his honor. She created a mathematics wall entitled "Celebration", consisting of 50 wooden boxes—one for each year of his life—behind
6534-548: The anthology film O. Henry's Full House (1952), for 20th Century Fox . Goff and Roberts stayed with Fox for two adventure films, White Witch Doctor (1953) and King of the Khyber Rifles (1954). From 1954 to 1955, Goff served as president of the screenwriters' council of the Screen Writers Guild . At MGM they wrote another adventure tale, Green Fire (1954) then returned to Warners to do
6655-677: The beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time. Founded in 1915 (and now 109 years old), The Spectator is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications. It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake; the Columbia University 's Columbia Daily Spectator , and has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 's well-known nation-wide Columbia Scholastic Press Association . founded 1925. The Voice
6776-420: The better constructionist... Goff gets the nod for detail and dialogue. Yet they work together so closely that it is difficult to separate their individual contributions, and what usually emerges is a blending of both their selves. "Our contention, and I think it's borne out by the scripts we’ve done", said Roberts, "is that the style of the script is neither my style nor Ivan's, but a third person's." Warners put
6897-636: The black students. The New York City Department of Education reported in 2003 that public per student spending at Stuyvesant High School is slightly lower than the city average. Stuyvesant also receives private contributions from alumni, retired faculty, charitable foundations and educational grants to build up a school endowment. The college-preparatory curriculum at Stuyvesant mostly includes four years of English, history, and laboratory-based sciences. The sciences courses include requisite biology , chemistry , and physics classes. Students also take four years of mathematics. Students also take three years of
7018-652: The boys' varsity, boys' junior varsity, and girls' varsity divisions. 15 years after moving to Chambers Street in Battery Park City, in September 2007, the Stuyvesant High football team was given a home field at Pier 40 , on the Hudson River waterfront of the westside of Manhattan situated north of the school at Houston Street and West Street . In 2008, the baseball team was granted use of
7139-399: The building was New York City's first new high school building in ten years. The new downtown Stuyvesant Campus cost $ 150 million, making it the most expensive high school building ever built in the city at the time. The S.H.S. Library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City. Shortly after the third S.H.S. building was completed, the $ 10 million Tribeca Bridge
7260-577: The city from the summer after sixth grade until the eighth-grade exam. Despite the implementation of these free programs for improving underprivileged children's enrollment, black and Hispanic enrollment continued to decline. After further expansion of those free test prep programs, there was still no increase in percentages to the attendance of black and Hispanic children. As of 2019 , fewer than 1% of freshman openings were given to black students, while over 66% were given to Asian-American students, most of whom had similar socioeconomic backgrounds to those of
7381-546: The collapse of the second World Trade Center tower, concern over a bomb threat at the school prompted an evacuation of the surrounding area, as reported live on the Today show. When classes resumed on September 21, 2001, students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech, and required
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#17327732377267502-525: The completion of the AP course: systems level programming, computer graphics , and software development. In addition, there is a one-year computer networking class which can earn students Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Spanish, French, German, Latin , Chinese and Japanese. In 2005, the school also started offering courses in Arabic after
7623-1049: The ensuing gun battle, the police kill most of Cody's gang and Verna is arrested. Cody shoots one of his own men for trying to surrender. Finally, only Cody is still loose. He flees to the top of a gigantic, globe-shaped gas storage tank . After Hank shoots Cody several times with a rifle, Cody fires at the tank, which bursts into flames. He shouts "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" before the tank explodes. I used to like to walk out on him, frankly, whenever my contract didn't suit me. I'd cuss him out in Yiddish, which I had learned from Jewish friends in my days at Stuyvesant High School . Drove him wild. 'What'd he say?!' he'd yell. 'What'd he just call me?!' —Cagney on his relationship with Jack L. Warner , Rolling Stone Magazine (1982). After winning an Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy , Cagney left Warner Brothers in 1942 to form his own production company with his business manager and brother, William . After making four unsuccessful movies (including
7744-442: The exam may be biased against African and Hispanic Americans , while attempts to eliminate the exam have been criticized as discriminatory against Asian Americans. For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant High was not only all-male (1904–1969), but also heavily Jewish . A significant influx of Asian students began in the 1970s; by 2019, 74% of the Stuyvesant students in attendance were Asian-American. In
7865-410: The existing previous temporary school building of the last few years at 23rd Street. It contained 25 classrooms devoted to skilled industrial trades such as joinery , as well as 53 regular classrooms and a 1,600-seat auditorium. A half-century later, uring the 1950s, the building underwent a $ 2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries, and cafeterias. Unfortunately through
7986-685: The film's opening scene. The script is notable for reworking many themes from Cagney's previous films with Warner. Most notably, in The Public Enemy , Cagney smashed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke 's face; in White Heat he kicks Virginia Mayo off a chair. In Each Dawn I Die , his character suffers the ill effects of prison; while here, his character has a breakdown in the prison mess hall. Furthermore, in The Roaring Twenties Cagney fought with rival gangsters in
8107-525: The former drafting course, as well as a semester of introductory computer science. For the class of 2015, the one-semester computer science course was replaced with a two-semester course. As a specialized high school, Stuyvesant offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses. These courses focus on math, science, history, English, or foreign languages. This gives students various opportunities to earn college credit. AP computer science students can also take three additional computer programming courses after
8228-584: The freshman classes at eight selective colleges in the U.S. and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67 students to these schools, comprising 9.9% of its 674 seniors. In recent years, Stuyvesant High’s student newspaper has reported on college admissions of the graduating classes, with the class of 2021 having 133 students offered admission to Ivy League institutions. U.S. News & World Report included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st. In its 2010 progress report,
8349-415: The gang's isolated hideout, asking to use the phone. Hank is concerned. Cody introduces the stranger as "The Trader," Daniel Winston. Cody plans to steal a chemical plant's payroll by using an empty tanker truck as a Trojan horse . Hank says he will repair Verna's radio, then rigs a signal transmitter and attaches it to the tanker; on the way to the plant, he manages to get a message to Evans. The police track
8470-452: The greater metropolitan area, enclosed within 830,000 copies of The New York Times . In the months after the attacks, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after September 11, 2001, and complile them into a collection of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11—The View from
8591-463: The last film he wrote without Roberts for the rest of his career. Goff later said in 1976 that he and Roberts "complement each other's talent and personality. While I was stowing away on freighters and trains, bumming around the world, Ben was sneaking on the New York subway. But we respect each other, making creative compromise possible." At the end of the war, Roberts and Goff decided to remain as
8712-747: The main writers of the TV series Logan's Run (1976). They also created the short-lived Time Express (1979) and produced Nero Wolfe (1981). They were one of many writers on The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). Roberts died in 1984. Goff lived in Malibu towards the end of his life. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 1999 in his sleep at St John's Health Centre in Santa Monica. Stuyvesant High School Stuyvesant High School ( / ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t / STY -və-sənt )
8833-427: The need for more basic mathematical and scientific preparation in New York's growing numbers of public secondary schools in the late 19th century. The first such school in the city was Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, which opened in 1893. By 1899, now positioned as the newly-formed City of Greater New York 's Superintendent of Public Schools, Maxwell was advocating for another specialized high school across
8954-462: The never-made The Sea Wolves about John P. Cromwell in World War II. During the 1960s Goff and Roberts turned increasingly to television. They wrote a pilot for a show starring Rod Taylor , Dateline: San Francisco (1962) which was not picked up. They created and wrote The Rogues (1964). They wrote the pilot for a series, Preview Tonight (1968) which was not picked up, and wrote
9075-457: The new Stuyvesant High School building. Each block contains relics providing evidence of geographical, historical, natural, cultural, and social worlds, from antiquity to the present time. The blocks are set into the hallway walls and scattered throughout the building. Each block is inscribed with a brief description of its contents or context. The items displayed include pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, fragments of monuments from around
9196-407: The new building. The authority was not required to hire the lowest bidder, which meant that the construction process could be accelerated in return for a higher cost. The building was designed by the architectural firms of Gruzen Samton Steinglass and Cooper, Robertson & Partners . The structure's main architect, Alexander Cooper of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, had also designed much of
9317-656: The next few years. [REDACTED] During construction, the Battery Park City Authority , the Percent for Art Program of the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York City Board of Education commissioned Mnemonics , an artwork by public artists Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel . Four hundred hollow glass blocks were dispersed randomly from the basement to the tenth floor of
9438-519: The opening robbery scenes. Urban street scenes along with the "Milbank Hotel" were shot in and around Van Nuys . The "hideaway lodge sequences" were shot at the Warner ranch , the interior scenes in the studio itself, and the climax scene at an oil refinery near Torrance , south of Los Angeles . The drive-in theater scenes were shot at the now demolished San Val Drive-In in Burbank . Jack Warner wanted
9559-559: The other schools using the test. Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and the pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Ninth- and rising tenth–grade students are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, but far fewer students are admitted that way. The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension) skills. Former Mayor John Lindsay and community activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have argued that
9680-557: The others. The gang splits up. However, one gang member was severely scalded during the attack by escaping steam from the locomotive. The gang had left the helpless man in their hiding place. His body puts the police on Cody's trail. Informants enable the authorities to close in on a motor court in Los Angeles where Cody, Verna, and Ma are holed up. Cody shoots and wounds US Treasury investigator Philip Evans and makes his escape. He then puts his emergency scheme in motion: confess to
9801-475: The outside, "Big Ed" Somers, Cody's ambitious right-hand man, takes charge. Verna betrays Cody and joins Ed. Ed pays inmate Roy Parker to kill Cody. In the prison workshop, Parker attempts to drop a heavy piece of machinery on Cody, but Hank pushes Cody out of the way, saving his life and gaining Cody's trust. Ma visits and vows to "take care of" Big Ed, despite Cody's frantic attempts to dissuade her. He starts worrying and decides to break out with Hank. Meanwhile, it
9922-546: The paper's Hollywood correspondent. Goff worked as a journalist in Hollywood. In January 1937 he signed a writing contract with Warner Bros. He was linked romantically with fellow Australian expatriate, actor Constance Worth . He adapted the book The Story of San Michele although it was not made. In 1938, he was reported as working on a version of Svengali . He eventually became a staff writer at Republic Studios . His work included uncredited contributions to several of
10043-450: The picture. According to him, the draft was "bad—a real potboiler," but William reassured Walsh that "Jimmy [would] rewrite it as much as possible." White Heat was meant to be based on the true story of Ma Barker , a bank robber who raised her four sons as criminals. However, this was changed along with Cagney's involvement; Ma Barker became Ma Jarrett, and her four children were reduced to two. Arthur Barker became Arthur "Cody" Jarrett,
10164-675: The pier after construction and delivery of an artificial turf pitching mound that met Public Schools Athletic League specifications. Stuyvesant also has its own swimming pool, but it does not contain its own running track or tennis court. The student body of Stuyvesant High School is represented by the Stuyvesant Student Union, a student government . It comprises a group of students (elected each year for each grade) who promote and manage extracurricular activities (clubs and publications), by organizing out-of-school activity such as city excursions or fundraisers, and provide
10285-409: The pilot for Charlie's Angels (1976–81). Goff and Roberts subsequently left the series, and Goff had said "[the producers] wanted us to write in a lot of car chases and to put guns in the hands of the girls; we walked." The two were entitled to 12.5% of the show's profits and were part of a lawsuit against Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to have a correct accounting done. Goff and Roberts were
10406-636: The plan to be scrapped and led to the passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act, in the New York State Legislature which preserved admissions by examination only. A small number of students judged to be economically disadvantaged and who came within a few points of the cut-off score were given an extra chance to pass the test. Community activist group ACORN International published two reports in 1996, titled Secret Apartheid and Secret Apartheid II . In these reports, ACORN called
10527-530: The prison mess hall scene replaced for budgetary reasons, stating the "cost of a single scene with 600 extras and only one line of dialogue would be exorbitant." For this reason, Warner wanted the scene shot in a chapel, but relented when "the writers pointed out that, apart from the fact that Jarrett would [never be willingly caught in a] chapel", the whole point of the scene was to "have a lot of noise, with rattling knives and forks and chatter, that suddenly goes completely silent when Jarrett first screams." The scream
10648-581: The private secretary to novelist Louis Goulding. Goff was working for The West Australian as a journalist but resigned from his job in April 1930 to travel to the US. Travelling with a friend, E Irwin, he went via Sydney and Auckland, then Fiji – where they were arrested for stowing away on a ship – before arriving in Canada. They eventually arrived in the US and went to Los Angeles. and Mexico, writing for
10769-560: The producers is quite apparent. One complements the other. One will back off if the other makes a point more succinctly. Goff, perhaps a touch more serious in manner, speaks with an Aussie accent. Roberts is a quick talker and has a laugh slightly reminiscent of Ed Wynn's." A TV series they created My Friend Tony (1969) was less successful although it ran a season. They wrote some thrillers, Diagnosis: Murder (1975) and The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976) (starring Mike Connors from Mannix ) and had enormous success creating and writing
10890-790: The production's casts, choruses, or costume and tech crews to Step, Hip-Hop, Swing, Modern, Bolly, Flow, Tap or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late January to February and ends in final performances on three nights in March/April. Scoring is done on each night's performances and the winner is determined by the overall total. In 2023, soph-frosh won SING! for the first time in the tradition's fifty-one year history. The Stuyvesant High School has produced many notable alumni , including four Nobel laureates . As of 2024, U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked Stuyvesant as 2nd among New York City high schools and 21st among STEM high schools. In December 2007, The Wall Street Journal studied
11011-509: The proposed 15th Street school building. All of these locations were named after Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), the last Dutch Director (governor) of New Netherland (and its major port town of New Amsterdam ), 1647–1665, and owner of the area's Stuyvesant Farm . The appellation of a specific historical name was selected to avoid confusion with Brooklyn's earlier Manual Training High School. Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan's first specialized high school. At
11132-495: The quote in the final scene atop a tower. A variation of the quote—"Top of the world, ma!"—appears in the 1986 movie Tough Guys during a scene in which Eli Wallach shoots at cops from a train; the same variation is used in the 1990 film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane by Andrew Dice Clay when he escapes kidnappers and discovers that he is atop the Capitol Records Building . It has also been quoted in
11253-427: The rafters rock." For years, Cagney resisted gangster roles in an effort to avoid typecasting, but decided to return to the genre after feeling his box office power waning. Following Cagney's attachment, Warner increased the production budget to $ 1 million and hired Raoul Walsh to direct. Walsh had previously worked with Cagney on The Roaring Twenties (in 1939) and The Strawberry Blonde (in 1941). However, Cagney
11374-533: The river in the newly established borough of Manhattan . In January 1903 Maxwell and Snyder submitted a report to the New York City Board of Education in which they suggested the creation of a school in Manhattan. The Board of Education approved the plans in April 1904. They suggested that the school occupy a plot on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue. However, that plot did not yet contain
11495-488: The school received a S.H.S. / N.Y.P.L. student library card so they could check books out of the school library or any other public library in the NYPL system. An unfortunate escalator collapse at Stuyvesant High School on September 13, 2018, 26 years after it was built / installed, injured 10 people, including 8 students. As a result, various escalators remained closed off to students for examination / study and renovation for
11616-1036: The school's Muslim Student Association had raised funds to support the course. Stuyvesant's biology and geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology, human physiology , medical ethics , medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, anthropology and sociobiology , vertebrate zoology , laboratory techniques, medical human genetics , botany , the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and psychology. The chemistry and physics departments include classes in organic chemistry , physical chemistry , astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics . The English Department offers students courses in British and classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, philosophy, existentialism , debate , acting, journalism, creative writing, and poetry. The Social Studies core requires two years of global history (or one year of global followed by one year of European history), one year of American history , as well as
11737-490: The school's core curriculum would be separated for the rest, and that a discrete trade school would operate in the Stuyvesant building during the evening. Thereafter, Stuyvesant became renowned for excellence in math and science. In 1909, eighty percent of the school's alumni went to college, compared to other schools, which only sent 25% to 50% of their graduates to college. By 1919 officials started restricting admission based on academic achievement. Stuyvesant implemented
11858-420: The students to attend in two shifts, with the Stuyvesant students attending the evening shift. Normal classes resumed nearly a month after the attack, on October 9. Nine alumni were killed in the World Trade Center attack. On October 2, 2001, the school newspaper, The Spectator , added a 24-page section with student photos, reflections and stories. On November 20, 2001, the magazine was distributed for free to
11979-515: The surrounding development of Battery Park City. Stuyvesant's principal at the time, Abraham Baumel, visited the country's most advanced laboratories to gather ideas about what to include in the new Stuyvesant building's 12 laboratory rooms. The new 10-story building also included banks of escalators, glass-walled studios on the roof, and a shorter four-story northern wing with a swimming pool, five gymnasiums, and an auditorium. Construction began in 1989. When it finally opened five years later in 1992,
12100-399: The tanker and prepare an ambush. The gang gets into the payroll office, but the tanker driver, ex-con "Bo" Creel, recognizes Hank and informs Cody. Having tracked the truck to Long Beach, California , using direction finders , the police surround the building and call on Cody to surrender; he decides to fight it out. When the police fire tear gas into the office, Hank manages to escape. In
12221-528: The team on to an early draft of Mara Maru for which they were not credited. They worked on Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), with Gregory Peck in the title role, then were reunited with Cagney on Come Fill the Cup (1951). They wrote a Joan Crawford vehicle, Goodbye, My Fancy (1952), provided the original story for a British film, Gift Horse (1952) and were among several writers on
12342-416: The time of its opening, the school consisted of 155 students and 12 teachers. At first, the school provided a core curriculum of "English, Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, [and] music," as well as a physical education program and a more specialized track of "woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, [and] freehand drawing." However, in June 1908, Maxwell announced that
12463-674: The total student body. In 1972, the New York State Legislature in the state capital of Albany passed the Hecht–Calandra Act, which designated four city-wide selective specialized public high schools in New York City of: Brooklyn Technical High School , Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and the High School of Music & Art (now renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School ) as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for
12584-566: The train heist, Cody has one of his "debilitating headaches", causing him to fall from his chair and fire off a round from his .45 . This was Walsh's idea, as was the showing of Virginia Mayo 's upper thigh on screen. Another scene involved Cody giving his wife, Verna, a "seething look", but Walsh improvised and had Cagney knock her off of her chair. Cagney claimed it was his idea "to have Cody climb onto Ma Jarrett's lap and sit there; being soothed during one of his psychotic [episodes]", but Walsh has always denied this; claiming many years later that it
12705-575: The well-regarded, but "financially disastrous" adaptation of William Saroyan 's The Time of Your Life ), Cagney returned to Warner in mid-1949. His decision to return was purely financial; Cagney admitted he "needed the money," and that he never forgot the "hell" Warner put him through in the 1930s when it came to renewing his contract. Likewise, the last thing Jack Warner wanted to see was Cagney back on his lot; referring to him as "that little bastard", he vowed to never take him back. Cagney's new contract with Warner enabled him to make $ 250,000 per film on
12826-541: The westerns in The Three Mesquiteers series, and a Gene Autry vehicle, Sunset in Wyoming (1941). At Republic Goff first met Ben Roberts who says Goff was working on a Three Mesquiteers script for John Wayne while Roberts was collaborating with Sidney Sheldon on a district attorney movie. Roberts called Goff "a fellow with a proper English accent... We couldn't figure out what he was doing, writing
12947-403: The world" line also was used in the opening of 50 Cent and PnB Rock's "Crazy" song. Ivan Goff Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 – 23 September 1999) was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and the pilot for Charlie's Angels (1976). Goff
13068-592: The world, as well as the highest number of students who reach the AP courses' "mastery level". As of 2018 , there are 31 AP classes offered, with a little more than half of all students taking at least one AP class, and about 98% of students pass their AP tests. Stuyvesant fields 32 athletics varsity teams , including the swimming, golf, bowling , volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling , fencing , baseball/softball, American handball , tennis, track / cross country , cricket , football , and lacrosse teams. In addition, Stuyvesant has ultimate teams for
13189-620: The world, memorabilia from each of the 88 years' history of the old building, a Revolutionary War button, water from the Nile and Ganges Rivers, fragments of the Mayan pyramids , and various chemical compounds. Empty blocks were also installed to be filled with items chosen by each of the graduating classes up through 2080. The S.H.S. installation later received the Award for Excellence in Design from
13310-617: Was an early writer on The Horn Blows at Midnight . He wrote a never-filmed script about an American soldier in Australia, Private Eddie Lawson . During World War II, Goff joined the Army Signal Corps where he found himself making wartime propaganda shorts at the former Astoria Studios in Long Island , New York. At Astoria, Goff was reunited with Ben Roberts . One day over lunch Roberts told Goff of an idea he had for
13431-507: Was born in Perth , the son of two concert musicians. He attended Perth Boys Central School and grew up in Claremont. At 15, he began writing for a local newspaper, but soon became dissatisfied with the isolation he felt. "Living in Australia made me crazy", he later said in an interview. "It took a month for a book to get to Australia, a year for a play and forever for an idea." Goff was
13552-533: Was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street. The building was designed to be fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is listed as such by the New York City Department of Education. As a result, the building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for students with multiple disabilities who are between
13673-401: Was designed in the then popular Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical / Classical Revival architecture for its grand imposing style. It would be shaped like the letter "H", with two interior light courts ; the shape also allowed natural light to illuminate more inside windows and parts of the building. The cornerstone for the new building was laid in September 1905. Approximately $ 1.5 million
13794-605: Was established in 1904 initially as an all-boys school in the East Village of lower Manhattan . Starting in 1934, admission for all applicants was contingent on passing an entrance examination. In 1969, after 65 years with an all-male student body, the high school started permanently accepting female students. In 1992, Stuyvesant High School moved to its current location at Battery Park City to accommodate more students. The old campus houses several smaller high schools and charter schools. Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing
13915-599: Was expanded in 1938 to include the newly founded Bronx High School of Science . In 1967 Alice de Rivera filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking Stuyvesant's entrance exam because of her gender. The lawsuit was decided in the student's favor, and Stuyvesant was required to accept female students. The first female students were accepted in September 1969, when Stuyvesant offered admission to 14 girls and enrolled 12 of them. The next year, 223 female students were accepted to Stuyvesant. By 2015, young women represented 43% of
14036-412: Was founded in the 1973–1974 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials. It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. The Voice attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a First Amendment Constitutional lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975–1976. At the beginning of
14157-508: Was his idea. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $ 2,189,000 domestically and $ 1,294,000 foreign. Critical reaction to the film was positive, and today it is considered a classic. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "the acme of the gangster-prison film" and praised its "thermal intensity". This classic film anticipated the heist films of the early '50s (for example John Huston 's 1950 The Asphalt Jungle and Stanley Kubrick 's 1956 The Killing ), accentuated
14278-422: Was improvised by Cagney, and the shock on everyone's face was real, for neither Cagney nor Walsh informed any of the extras of what was going to happen. Warner agreed to the scene on the condition that it be shot in three hours, so "that the extras were through by lunchtime." A number of scenes were improvised; Walsh's "personal touches go beyond the script." When Cody and his gang hide out in their cabin just after
14399-440: Was spent on constructing the school, including $ 600,000 for the monumental stone exterior alone. It was considered one of the most expensive public buildings or school structures ever built up to that time in New York, and considered a point of civic pride in the early 20th century. In 1907, the Stuyvesant High School moved to the new building on 15th Street. The new building had a capacity of 2,600 students, more than double that of
14520-555: Was unhappy with the studio's decision to hire Walsh; in part, because he requested Frank McHugh be in the film, but Walsh turned his friend down in an attempt to cut costs. Warner bought the rights to the story from Virginia Kellogg for $ 2,000. Being "methodical craftsmen", it took Goff and Roberts six months to complete the first draft. They "would plot in complete detail before even beginning to write, then write their dialogue together, line by line." When Walsh saw it, he pleaded with Cagney's brother, William, to talk Cagney out of doing
14641-460: Was voted 4th in AFI's 10 Top 10 list of gangster movies. Scenes of the film are featured in the 1992 crime-drama film Juice as well as the 1982 Hart to Hart episode "Hart and Sole." In the noir parody Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid , Steve Martin acts in scenes with Cagney's character through special effects and cross-cutting. The "Made it ma! Top of the world" line is used in the 1991 film Ricochet , in which Denzel Washington recites
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