Bick and Leslie walked to the white picket fence (passing by the car where Mr.Lynnton sat patiently waiting for Bick).War Winds ran up and nuzzled between the couple, who silently stood on either side.Behind them, the train whistle sounded as the locomotive departed from the station.Younger Lacy took David""s arm and vowed: "Come along, David, you""re for me."A close-up of each of the faces of Bick and Leslie was followed by a rising, panning camera shot and a transitional dissolve.White Heatis an entertaining, fascinating and hypnotic portrait of a flamboyant, mother-dominated and fixated, epileptic and psychotic killer, who often spouts crude bits of humor." He is drawn o gospel-singers in a nearby all-black church, is taken in as a dirty hobo (after ardently singing in the congregation), and soon is back on his feet as a traveling salesman hustling vacuum cleaners.).This spoof of detective films was the first of Keaton""s feature films solely directed by himself, after his co-director stints inThree Ages (1923)andOur Hospitality (1923).