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DVD : The FBI Story
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: The FBI Story
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starring: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams
directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569816138
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 18034
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-10



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Description:
American movie icon James Stewart portrays one of J. Edgar Hoover's finest and Vera Miles co-stars as his steadfast wife in this salute to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The colorful career of Agent Chip Hardesty (Stewart) covers 1924 to the late '50s. Along the way he tangles with everything from the Ku Klux Klan to a bomber who commits mass murder for insurance money. His fiercest exploits come in the '30s when he stares down a gun barrel at Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker and John Dillinger. From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Don Whitehead's bestseller and directed by veteran Hollywood hitmaker Mervyn LeRoy, The FBI Story is your rat-a-tat ticket to the inside story.

Amazon.com:
Approved by J. Edgar Hoover himself, this idealized telling of the FBI's origins spans the years between Hoover's appointment in the '20s and the Red Scare of the mid-'50s. Beginning with an investigation that showcases the talent and resources available to the FBI, dedicated agent Chip Hardesty (Jimmy Stewart) tells new recruits how the agency was streamlined into a professional crime-fighting organization. Using his personal life story as a backdrop, Hardesty takes the new men (and the viewer) through cases involving gangsters, land grabs, and Communist spies. Vera Miles plays Hardesty's dedicated wife, while Murray Hamilton helps out as gung-ho fellow agent Sam Crandall. Lots of pro-Hoover PR and propaganda, but it never gets in the way of the action or family drama. Interestingly, the history of the Hardesty family is almost as good as the history of the agency. --Mark Savary



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - a real classic
this was a real classic james stewart, the making of the f.b.i. or g-men buy this one.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The FBI Story
I have been looking for the FBI story for a long time and have until now been unable to find it. Amazon had it so I ordered it from them. I receive it within 2 weeks and being on the other side of the world was something I thought was great. It is I believe one of James Stewart's best movies and I have already watched it twice. Thank you.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best Unintended Comedy/Propoganda Puff Ever
"The FBI Story" is hands down the funniest straight-laced drama ever made, and one of the greatest '50s pro-government propoganda tools to boot. Made by a scared Hollywood, the film is a white wash of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover's history. Case in point: Hoover is shown from behind as a strikingly tall invidual with broad shoulders. In fact, he was not. The FBI is shown as a great supporter of Civil Rights and fighting the KKK. In fact, they did every thing in their power to destory MLK Jr. and anyone who dared take on the white power establishment. Let's not get into wire-tapping, secret files and blackmail schemes. People die of gunshots and slump down dead; no blood, no pain, just all quick and fun. It's all so phony, it's a laugh riot. Take the death of a major character within Stewart's family -- it's false, and must have come from the pen of someone who's never even met a man who has lost a child. A few folks ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great movie
Great Jimmy Stewart movie. A very conservative take on the FBI, but for all you liberals out there, just remember it's a MOVIE.



 

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