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The climax remains one of cinema’s most iconic endings. Holed up inside a massive chemical plant, surrounded by police, Cody stands on top of a giant gasoline storage tank. As bullets spark the leaking fuel, Cagney’s face contorts into a primal scream of victory and madness. Unaware his wife has betrayed him and his mother is dead, he shouts, before the entire plant explodes into a fireball—a visual metaphor for a life that could only end in self-immolation.
